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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories book

ByJanell Hobson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2021
eBook Published 17 March 2021
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429243578
Pages 408
eBook ISBN 9780429243578
Subjects Area Studies, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Hobson, J. (Ed.). (2021). The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429243578

ABSTRACT

In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts:

  • A fragmented past, an inclusive future
  • Contested histories, subversive memories
  • Gendered lives, racial frameworks
  • Cultural shifts, social change
  • Black identities, feminist formations

Within these sections, a diverse range of women, places, and issues are explored, including ancient African queens, Black women in early modern European art and culture, enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States, Sally Hemings, Phillis Wheatley, Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris, Black women, civil rights, South African apartheid, and sexual violence and resistance in the United States in recent history.

The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, History, Africana Studies, and Cultural Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

An Introduction by Janell Hobson
ByJanell Hobson

part Part I|76 pages

A fragmented past, an inclusive future

chapter 1|10 pages

Women are from Africa and men are from Europe

ByMonica Hanna

chapter 2|12 pages

Priestess, queen, goddess

The divine feminine in the kingdom of Kush
BySolange Ashby

chapter 3|9 pages

Queen Balqis, “Queen of Sheba”

ByCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban

chapter 4|13 pages

Black women in early modern European art and culture

ByPaul H.D. Kaplan

chapter 5|9 pages

Black women in early modern Spanish literature

ByNicholas R. Jones

chapter 6|9 pages

The legend of Lucy Negro

ByJoyce Green MacDonald

chapter 7|12 pages

(Anti-)colonial assemblages

The history and reformulations of Njinga Mbande
ByDaniel F. Silva

part Part II|70 pages

Contested histories, subversive memories

chapter 8|11 pages

Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria

Cultural narratives of precolonial heroines
ByAje-Ori Agbese

chapter 9|9 pages

Nana Asma’u

A model for literate women Muslims
ByBeverly Mack

chapter 10|11 pages

Finding “Fatima” among enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States

ByDenise A. Spellberg

chapter 11|9 pages

Phillis Wheatley and New England slavery

ByJennifer Thorn

chapter 12|8 pages

Sally Hemings

Writing the life of an enslaved woman
ByAnnette Gordon-Reed

chapter 13|9 pages

The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution

Kinship, gender, and everyday resistance
ByNathan H. Dize

chapter 14|11 pages

The then and now of subjugation and empowerment

Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800)
ByJames Smalls

part Part III|66 pages

Gendered lives, racial frameworks

chapter 15|9 pages

A history of Black women in nineteenth-century France

ByRobin Mitchell

chapter 16|9 pages

Living free

Self-emancipated women and queer formations of freedom
ByVanessa M. Holden

chapter 17|7 pages

“Blood, fire, and freedom”

Enslaved women and rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba
ByMichele Reid-Vazquez

chapter 18|10 pages

Black women and Africana abolitionism

ByNneka D. Dennie

chapter 19|10 pages

Ethiopia’s woke women

The nineteenth century re-imagines Africa
ByBarbara McCaskill

chapter 20|9 pages

Singing power/sounding identity

The Black woman’s voice from hidden Hush Arbors to the popular
ByMaya Cunningham

chapter 21|10 pages

Jamettes, mas, and bacchanal

A culture of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago
ByAllison O. Ramsay

part Part IV|72 pages

Cultural shifts, social change

chapter 22|11 pages

Wives and warriors

The royal women of Dahomey as representatives of the kingdom
ByLynne Ellsworth Larsen

chapter 23|9 pages

Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the shifting paradigms of African historiography

ByNaaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch

chapter 24|10 pages

The Aba Women’s War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as anti-colonial protest

ByEgodi Uchendu, Uche Okonkwo

chapter 25|11 pages

Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris

ByClaire Oberon Garcia

chapter 26|8 pages

The transnational Black feminist politics of Claudia Jones

ByCarole Boyce-Davies

chapter 27|10 pages

Confronting apartheid

Black women’s internationalism in South Africa and the United States
ByNicholas Grant

chapter 28|11 pages

Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms

Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the erasure of history
ByJenn M. Jackson

part Part V|78 pages

Black identities, feminist formations

chapter 29|13 pages

Traces of race, roots of gender

A genetic history
ByAmade M’charek

chapter 30|11 pages

Is twerking African?

Dancing and diaspora as embodied knowledge on YouTube
ByKyra D. Gaunt

chapter 31|12 pages

Sites of resistance

Black women and beauty in Black Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Bahia
ByValquíria Pereira Tenório, Flávia Alessandra de Souza

chapter 32|9 pages

Hail to the chefs

Black women’s pedagogy, sacred kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic religions
ByElizabeth Pérez

chapter 33|10 pages

Black women’s feminist literary renaissance of the late twentieth century

ByCarmen R. Gillespie

chapter 34|11 pages

Black women, sexual violence, and resistance in the United States

ByJanell Hobson, Donna E. Young

chapter 35|10 pages

African women’s political leadership

Global lessons for feminism
ByGretchen Bauer
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