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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of African American women on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures -- a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
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