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
part I|76 pages
A fragmented past, an inclusive future
part II|70 pages
Contested histories, subversive memories
chapter 8|11 pages
Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria
chapter 13|9 pages
The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution
chapter 14|11 pages
The then and now of subjugation and empowerment
part III|66 pages
Gendered lives, racial frameworks
chapter 17|7 pages
“Blood, fire, and freedom”
chapter 20|9 pages
Singing power/sounding identity
part IV|72 pages
Cultural shifts, social change
chapter 27|10 pages
Confronting apartheid
chapter 28|11 pages
Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms
part V|78 pages
Black identities, feminist formations