Frances E. W. Harper: A Call to Conscience - Couverture rigide

McKnight, Utz

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1509535535 ISBN 13 : 9781509535538

Editeur : Polity Press, 2020

Synopsis

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century's most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today.

In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harper's life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity.

This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Utz McKnight is Chair of the Department of Gender and Race Studies, and Professor of Political Science, at the University of Alabama.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509535535
• ISBN 13: 9781509535538
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible