A seat at the table : Black women public intellectuals in US history and culture /

"While Black women's intellectual history continues to grow as an important subfield in historical studies, there remains a gap in scholarship devoted to the topic. To date, major volumes on American intellectual history tend to exclude the words, ideas, and contributions of these influent...

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Other Authors:	Williams, Hettie V. (Editor), Ziobro, Melissa (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:	African American intellectuals > History. African American women > Intellectual life. African Americans > Intellectual life. African American women > Political activity > History. African Americans > Politics and government. African American intellectuals > Biography. African American women > Biography. Intellectuels noirs américains > Histoire. Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle. Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle. Noires américaines > Activité politique > Histoire. Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement. Intellectuels noirs américains > Biographies. Noires américaines > Biographies. African American intellectuals African American women African American women > Intellectual life African American women > Political activity African Americans > Intellectual life African Americans > Politics and government Biographies History

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction / Hettie V. Williams
Summary
Chapter 1. "Fired with a holy ambition": Maria W. Stewart and the foundations of Black women's jeremiadic tradition / Lacey P. Hunter
Chapter 2. "Did not Mary first preach the risen savior?" Black preaching women as public intellectuals / Hettie V. Williams
Summary
Chapter 3. "Our group of women": Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Black women in the Christian intellectual tradition / Tejai Beulah
Chapter 4. We led the way: Black women and the civil rights movement at Morgan State College / Simone R. Barrett
Chapter 5. Elreta Melton Alexander: A theoretical approach / Virginia L. Summey
Chapter 6. More than an icon: Taking Shirley Chisholm at her word / Marissa Jackson Sow
Chapter 7. Lenora B. Fulani: Distinguished postmodern revolutionary / Omar H. Ali and Tiera C. Moore
Summary
Chapter 8. "Whoever heard of a woman running a newspaper?" The public life and intellectual odyssey of Charlotta Bass / John Portlock
Chapter 9. "She did it for the culture": Black women visual artists as public intellectuals in the new Negro era / Lauren T. Rorie
Chapter 10. Mildred Fay Jefferson and the pro-life movement: A conservative Black woman public intellectual / Hettie V. Williams
Chapter 11. Naked truths: Dr. Joycelyn Elders, public health, and sex education in the 1990s / Tedi A. Pascarella
Chapter 12. What she knows for sure: Oprah Winfrey and the tradition of Black spiritual but not religious writing / Summary
Chapter 13. "Know where you are going and . . . remember where you came from": Black women in the Army during World War II / Sandra Bolzenius
Chapter 14. Seizing opportunity: African American women in the postwar military / Tanya L. Roth
Chapter 15. "Regardless of what life presents you": Black women public intellectuals in the post-Vietnam US military / Carol Fowler and Melissa Ziobro
About the editors and contributors
Index.