Miriam Thaggert
Biographic Data
| ID | 279956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Thaggert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Thaggert |
| SIGNATURE | THAGGERT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3083-654X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
Despite the storied position the railroad occupies in American history, the experiences of African American women are notably absent. Riding Jane Crow foregrounds Black women’s experiences as passengers and as workers. Focusing on the period from 1860 to 1925, between depictions of train travel as a mode of escape in slave narratives and the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the peak period of Pullman maids, the book reads …
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Ren…
Marriage, Moynihan, Mahogany: Success and the Post-Civil Rights Black Female Professional in Film
The 1975 film Mahogany destabilizes its portrayal of successful black femininity by interjecting a subtle narrative of national, familial, and racial normalcy. In what could be a retelling of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's infamous report on the black family, the film pathologizes the heroine's visual knowledge and professional success as a model, halts her accomplishments in Europe, and returns her to the United States. Because Mahogany emphasizes im…
Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel, The Help, engendered both acclaim and controversy in literary circles. The story of a young southern white woman's relationship with her family's black maid, the novel reflects—as does the readers’ response to it—the reverence with which black maids and nurses have been held in southern American culture and the deep anger and resentment the stereotypical mammy provokes. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders's study, Mammy, tells…
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case
Racial EtiquetteNella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Miriam Thaggert (bio) I In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that outward appearances and surface events only partly confirm. Rather than directly stating their thoughts, characters communicate through an exchange of looks—particularly her two light-skinned female characters, Irene and Clare. These subtle forms of expression heighten the …
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen'sPassingand theRhinelanderCase
Divided Images: Black Female Spectatorship and John Stahl's Imitation of Life
In her discussion of the maternal melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan notes that the mother is usually marginal in traditional cinema. Stories told from the viewpoint of the husband or child displace the mother's perspective, a displacement that Kaplan recognizes in other arenas such as psychoanalysis and the women's movement itself. She ends her essay by stating the necessity for feminists to examine the absent position of the mother and the coding of her …
Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel, The Help, engendered both acclaim and controversy in literary circles. The story of a young southern white woman's relationship with her family's black maid, the novel reflects—as does the readers’ response to it—the reverence with which black maids and nurses have been held in southern American culture and the deep anger and resentment the stereotypical mammy provokes. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders's study, Mammy, tells…
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen'sPassingand theRhinelanderCase
Divided Images: Black Female Spectatorship and John Stahl's Imitation of Life
In her discussion of the maternal melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan notes that the mother is usually marginal in traditional cinema. Stories told from the viewpoint of the husband or child displace the mother's perspective, a displacement that Kaplan recognizes in other arenas such as psychoanalysis and the women's movement itself. She ends her essay by stating the necessity for feminists to examine the absent position of the mother and the coding of her …
Marriage, Moynihan, Mahogany: Success and the Post-Civil Rights Black Female Professional in Film
The 1975 film Mahogany destabilizes its portrayal of successful black femininity by interjecting a subtle narrative of national, familial, and racial normalcy. In what could be a retelling of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's infamous report on the black family, the film pathologizes the heroine's visual knowledge and professional success as a model, halts her accomplishments in Europe, and returns her to the United States. Because Mahogany emphasizes im…
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case
Racial EtiquetteNella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Miriam Thaggert (bio) I In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that outward appearances and surface events only partly confirm. Rather than directly stating their thoughts, characters communicate through an exchange of looks—particularly her two light-skinned female characters, Irene and Clare. These subtle forms of expression heighten the …
Divided Images: Black Female Spectatorship and John Stahl's Imitation of Life
In her discussion of the maternal melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan notes that the mother is usually marginal in traditional cinema. Stories told from the viewpoint of the husband or child displace the mother's perspective, a displacement that Kaplan recognizes in other arenas such as psychoanalysis and the women's movement itself. She ends her essay by stating the necessity for feminists to examine the absent position of the mother and the coding of her …
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case
Racial EtiquetteNella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Miriam Thaggert (bio) I In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that outward appearances and surface events only partly confirm. Rather than directly stating their thoughts, characters communicate through an exchange of looks—particularly her two light-skinned female characters, Irene and Clare. These subtle forms of expression heighten the …
Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen'sPassingand theRhinelanderCase
Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel, The Help, engendered both acclaim and controversy in literary circles. The story of a young southern white woman's relationship with her family's black maid, the novel reflects—as does the readers’ response to it—the reverence with which black maids and nurses have been held in southern American culture and the deep anger and resentment the stereotypical mammy provokes. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders's study, Mammy, tells…
Marriage, Moynihan, Mahogany: Success and the Post-Civil Rights Black Female Professional in Film
The 1975 film Mahogany destabilizes its portrayal of successful black femininity by interjecting a subtle narrative of national, familial, and racial normalcy. In what could be a retelling of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's infamous report on the black family, the film pathologizes the heroine's visual knowledge and professional success as a model, halts her accomplishments in Europe, and returns her to the United States. Because Mahogany emphasizes im…
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Ren…
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
Despite the storied position the railroad occupies in American history, the experiences of African American women are notably absent. Riding Jane Crow foregrounds Black women’s experiences as passengers and as workers. Focusing on the period from 1860 to 1925, between depictions of train travel as a mode of escape in slave narratives and the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the peak period of Pullman maids, the book reads …
Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees
Art (8 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)