Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

self-and-identity

• combing through unexpected archives of Black women's thought to construct an intellectual genealogy and geography of this group of Black women thinkers

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• the educated Negro intellectual faced with a gap between herself, the world of intellectualism and the Negro community, could never fully go home again

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embodiment

• race women were less interested in evacuating all modes of sexual expression and more interested in making sure ideas of sexuality did not overdetermine Black women's social possibilities

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• Black female leaders theorized the public platform as a site for community transformation, requiring them to put their bodies on the line

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ambition-and-status

• taught everywhere that merit always wins, colored women carefully and decently have struggled to lift themselves and their families out of pauperism

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• bell hooks became the poster child for a new generation of professional Black feminist women who had obtained doctoral degrees, written books, and taught courses

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