Emancipation's daughters : : re-imagining black femininity and the national body / / Riché Richardson.

"Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women--Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé--defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States."--

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 298 pages : illustrations)
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Table of Contents:
  • An Exemplary American Woman
  • Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy
  • From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother
  • America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and
  • Fashion
  • First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South
  • Side Girl and in American Grown
  • Beyoncé's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation