Maria W. Stewart, Ethnologist and Proto-Black Feminist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12148093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author), Jameliah Inga Shorter‐Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-75 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hyp.2021.75 |
| OpenAlex | W4225584790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
Discussions about nineteenth-century African American ethnology tend to focus only on black male thinkers. In the nineteenth century, ethnology was the study of difference among humans and often used racist science to justify discrimination against blacks. Black woman thinker Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879) made important contributions to ethnology but remains understudied. I argue that Stewart is a black feminist ethnologist because she aligns herself with her black male interlocutors on the core points of ethnology. Yet Stewart adds a distinctly black feminist position to the conversation. By focusing on Stewart's speech “An Address Delivered to the African Masonic Hall” (1833), I show that she concurs with her contemporaries that black people are inherently great because of their genealogical connection to Africa. Stewart also agrees that the inherent greatness of blacks establishes their claim to sociopolitical rights. I argue that Stewart's call for racial unity makes her a proto-black feminist and is a unique feature of her contribution to African American ethnology. Stewart's call demands that white people be held responsible for the harm that they have caused to blacks, which can be remedied by the races coming together on equal footing
Black women · Conversation · Ethnology · Harm · Political science · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Slave religion
Righteous discontent
The Black image in the white mind
Afrotopia
Stamped from the Beginning
Crying Out for Liberty
The White Image In The Black Mind
Beyond Respectability
"Doers of the Word"
Medical Apartheid
Thoughts on African Colonization
The Insurrectionist Challenge to Pragmatism and Maria W. Stewart's Feminist Insurrectionist Ethics
Talking Back
Race and the Concept of Progress in Nineteenth Century American Ethnology
The Methods of Ethnology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |