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Prologue: Naming Black Women’s Ideology Critique
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Published:December 2017
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As a professor of African-American literature and culture, I experience occasional bouts of pedagogical surprise. In a Winter 2013 class, for instance, students analyzed Maria W. Stewart’s lecture in Boston’s Franklin Hall (1832) in order to evaluate the conventions of argumentative writing. When subsequently tasked with an essay assignment to argue a position on a controversial issue facing his or her community, one student drafted a paper on the effects of employment discrimination in her Los Angeles neighborhood, marshaling Stewart’s claims from over a century ago to interrogate decreased employment opportunities in relation to diminished supports for public education and increasing police brutality. Again, in a separate course, class members identified the ways in which the framework of David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1829) expressly privileges black manhood, not to isolate Walker as singularly patriarchal, but to consider the ways in which masculinity undergirds many of the popular cultural renderings of black empowerment with which they were most readily familiar. With little to no prompting, participants in a more recent, pre-twentieth-century African-American studies course used Frances E. W. Harper’s short story “The Two Offers” (1859) and her speech “Woman’s Political Future” (1893) to forecast prominent issues in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaigns and debates. Student creativity and inventiveness of this ilk remind me of precisely the sort of intellectual curiosity that propelled me into my profession.
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