From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

by Koritha Mitchell

Book Overview

Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place."

Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252043324
• ISBN13: 9780252043321
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"