From slave cabins to the White House (Record no. 8923)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-0252043321
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 810.9MIT
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mitchell, Koritha.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title From slave cabins to the White House
Remainder of title homemade citizenship in African American culture
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Urbana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Illinois Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix,274p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Most Americans would agree that devoted wives and mothers make families strong and that strong families are the bedrock of society. Yet, throughout this nation's history, black women have managed to become model mothers and wives, but their doing so has not kept them from being mistaken for "welfare queens" and "baby mamas," the stereotypes that most consistently shape U.S. public policy. In this book, Koritha Mitchell shows the evolving connections between black women's homemaking and citizenship from domesticities of the slave cabin and to Michelle Obama in the White House. Drawing on canonical texts by and about African American women, Mitchell begins by connecting the roles of black women as rape survivor, race mother, single lady, matriarch, the strong black woman, and the evolving black women to the various roles that the site of the home served in the eras of post-emancipation, the New Negro, Civil Rights, post-civil rights, and the "post-racial." By looking at key protagonists in literary texts by authors like Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker, Mitchell exposes us to the palpable tension that emerges when African Americans, especially women, continue to invest in traditional domesticity even while seeing the signs that it will not yield for them the respectability and safety it should--black women might become decent housekeepers, but never homemakers. All in all, the confluence of these domestic locations and scripts shows that at every juncture, the home was a site where African American women and families negotiated and reasserted their citizenship in a society and culture that consistently and persistently continues to marginalize and assert violence against African Americans, regardless of how they met standards of respectability and citizenry
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   810.9MIT 008368 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book