Black intellectual cultures and ideals: educational philosophy in nineteenth-century African American literature, 1856-1910

Author(s)Patterson, Sarah Lynn
Date Accessioned2022-12-15T13:39:28Z
Date Available2022-12-15T13:39:28Z
Publication Date2018
SWORD Update2022-08-11T19:09:25Z
AbstractBlack Intellectual Cultures and Ideals: Educational Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, 1856-1910 explores how the goals of educational and moral attainment undergirded Black intellectual-activists’ racial uplift initiatives and notions of leadership. Examining Colored Convention minutes, Charlotte Forten’s Life on the Sea Islands (1864) and Serena A. M. Washington’s little-known Biography of George T. Downing (1910), among other texts, I argue that Black women writers’ rhetorical practices, organizational activism and publication histories empowered their calls to challenge professional marginalization and racism, while also shaping ideas about the future trajectory of Black leadership classes. Freeborn northern Black women, who were groomed by Black male social networks and who viewed teaching and authorship as interconnected forms of educational advocacy, utilized urban spaces and narratives to engage in American social reform, particularly the Abolition, Colored Conventions and Freedmen’s Education movements. Rather than solely examining traditional sites of education such as the classroom, this study interrogates a broad scope of Black women’s education-themed collaborative writing practices and cultural criticism that operated to historicize Black leaders’ advancements and future goals.
AdvisorForeman, Gabrielle
DegreePh.D.
DepartmentUniversity of Delaware, Department of English
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.58088/a2qf-x806
Unique Identifier1351935869
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31741
Languageen
PublisherUniversity of Delaware
URIhttps://login.udel.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/black-intellectual-cultures-ideals-educational/docview/2716058245/se-2?accountid=10457
KeywordsAfrican American literature
KeywordsAmerican literature
KeywordsBlack women writers
KeywordsNineteenth-century
KeywordsWomen writers
TitleBlack intellectual cultures and ideals: educational philosophy in nineteenth-century African American literature, 1856-1910
TypeThesis
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Patterson_udel_0060D_13455.pdf
Size:
1.29 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.22 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: