The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

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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. Cover Half Title Endorsement Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories: An Introduction by Janell Hobson Part I A fragmented past, an inclusive future Chapter 1 Women are from Africa and men are from Europe Chapter 2 Priestess, queen, goddess: The divine feminine in the kingdom of Kush Chapter 3 Queen Balqis, “Queen of Sheba” Chapter 4 Black women in early modern European art and culture Chapter 5 Black women in early modern Spanish literature Chapter 6 The legend of Lucy Negro Chapter 7 (Anti-)colonial assemblages: The history and reformulations of Njinga Mbande Part II Contested histories, subversive memories Chapter 8 Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria: Cultural narratives of precolonial heroines Chapter 9 Nana Asma’u: A model for literate women Muslims Chapter 10 Finding “Fatima” among enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States Chapter 11 Phillis Wheatley and New England slavery Chapter 12 Sally Hemings: Writing the life of an enslaved woman Chapter 13 The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution: Kinship, gender, and everyday resistance Chapter 14 The then and now of subjugation and empowerment: Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800) Part III Gendered lives, racial frameworks Chapter 15 A history of Black women in nineteenth-century France Chapter 16 Living free: Self-emancipated women and queer formations of freedom Chapter 17 “Blood, fire, and freedom”: Enslaved women and rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba Chapter 18 Black women and Africana abolitionism Chapter 19 Ethiopia’s woke women: The nineteenth century re-imagines Africa Chapter 20 Singing power/sounding identity: The Black woman’s voice from hidden Hush Arbors to the popular Chapter 21 Jamettes, mas, and bacchanal: A culture of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago Part IV Cultural shifts, social change Chapter 22 Wives and warriors: The royal women of Dahomey as representatives of the kingdom Chapter 23 Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the shifting paradigms of African historiography Chapter 24 The Aba Women’s War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as anti-colonial protest Chapter 25 Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris Chapter 26 The transnational Black feminist politics of Claudia Jones Chapter 27 Confronting apartheid: Black women’s internationalism in South Africa and the United States Chapter 28 Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms: Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the erasure of history Part V Black identities, feminist formations Chapter 29 Traces of race, roots of gender: A genetic history Chapter 30 Is twerking African?: Dancing and diaspora as embodied knowledge on YouTube Chapter 31 Sites of resistance: Black women and beauty in Black Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Bahia Chapter 32 Hail to the chefs: Black women’s pedagogy, sacred kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic religions Chapter 33 Black women’s feminist literary renaissance of the late twentieth century Chapter 34 Black women, sexual violence, and resistance in the United States Chapter 35 African women’s political leadership: Global lessons for feminism Index