Kemeshia Randle Swanson

Maverick Feminist

To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded Upon Violence and Respectability

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the extent to which the politics of respectability diminish joy and increase sorrow throughout the lifespan of Black women. By rejecting this damaging standard in society, Black women can wholly and attentively assist in the obliteration of racist, sexist, classist, and ableist oppression.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 136mm x 217mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781496850652
• ISBN-10: 1496850653
• Artikelnr.: 70143943

Autorenporträt

Kemeshia Randle Swanson, a college professor, is currently serving a joint appointment in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. She previously dedicated ten years of service to the Department of English at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Her work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature, southern literature, gender and sexualities studies, and hip-hop and popular culture. She has published in edited collections such as Words, Beats, and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture; Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in "The Help"; and Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. She is author of Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, published by University Press of Mississippi.