We Are Your Sisters
Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10236372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexa Benson Henderson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 436 |
| Publication date | 1985-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | We are your sisters: Black women in the nineteenth century, Dorothy Sterling, 1984 |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2209265 |
| OpenAlex | W1533378975 |
| Language | EN |
Documents the trials and joys of nineteenth-century Black women and suggests new ways of perceiving Black women, their relations with others, and their attitudes toward family, work, and feminism
Ancient history · Genealogy · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · History
The Narrative Creation of Self in the Fiction by African-American and African-Caribbean Women Writers
Strike Me If You Dare
"Going "Where They Dare Not Follow
Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes ; or, the "Colored Historian's" Resistance to the Technologies of Power in Postwar America
Race, Faces, and False Fronts
Taking the Horizon Path
Slave Women, Resistance and Criminality
Passing as Fact
Style Politics and Self-Fashioning in Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places
Bibliography of Works about Life-Writing for the Latter-1980s
Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community‐Builders in Ontario, 1850–70
Half Sisters of History
“Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters”
“All the Fire and Romance”
“Of Lasting Service for the Race”
“In the Quiet, Undisputed Dignity of My Womanhood”
Race and Federal Recognition in Native New England
Afterword
Mulatto (Mixed Race)
“Their Hair was Curly”
Afterword
Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space That Is America
The Quicksands of Representation
Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou (Why Am I Not Choctaw)?
After the Death of the Last
“Playing Indian”? The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997–1998
Knowing All of My Names
An/Other Case of New England Underwriting
Heartbreak
In Their “Native Country”
A Harbor of Sense
“Of What Use Is Fiction?”
Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a New Century
Endnotes
Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation
“Woman’s Era”
Slave and Mistress
The Limited Presence of African-American Teachers
Representative/Democracy
Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography and the Voice of Lydia Maria Child
“My Sister! My Sister!”
“We wish to Plead our own Cause”
"The Need of Their Genius"
Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870
Ida B. Wells, Catherine Impey, and trans -Atlantic dimensions of the nineteenth-century anti-lynching movement
African American Women Scholars and International Research
Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women
Contradictory Impulses
“They Rose and Fell Together”
"Raising the Stigma"
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Citizenship
A Mental and Moral Feast
Native Daughters in the Promised Land
Reinventing the master's tools
From Motives of Delicacy
Maria W. Stewart’s “The First Stage of Life”
Understanding Influences of Development on Black Women’s Success in U.S. Colleges
“Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America
The Road to Free-Market Family Policy
Gender and Race
From Ocean to O-Shen
“Blood and Money”
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
Let's Do This
Style and content in the rhetoric of early Afro‐American feminists
The sound of women's voices
Racism, Sexism, and Social Class
Tending to the Roots
Dr. Martin Robison Delany, 19Th-Century Africana Womanist
History as a Core Subject Area of African American Studies
Pulling Ourselves Together
A Greater Awakening
From the Margins to the Center
America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894
Ascending the Rostrum
If You Can't Push, Pull, If You Can't Pull, Please Get Out of the Way
The Fortune of Wells
Black Women in the United States a Bibliography of Recent Works
We must attack the system
White Mistresses and African-American Domestic Workers
Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic (Mis)Identification
Fixing the Color Line
Drawing the Line of Equality
Swept Under the Rug? A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges
The Rise of Women's Education in the United States and Korea
Blackgirlsmatter
Silences Broken, Silences Kept
Refashioning Diary Studies
Twice Other, Once Shy
A Treadmill Life”
Black Women and American Social Welfare
When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men
The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions
Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation
Blacks of the Marrying Kind
Faithful friend”
Political Consciousness and Resistance Among Black Antebellum Women
The Spoken and The Silenced in Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl and Our Nig
Transatlantic Interracial Sisterhoods
A Longitudinal Study of African American Women and the Maintenance of a Healthy Self-Esteem
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