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Traces of a stream : literacy and social change among African American women

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. (Author).

A showcase for nineteenth-century African American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship.

Book  - 2000
302.2244 Roy
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English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Social aspects > United States.
African American women > Education > Social aspects.
African Americans > Education.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
African American women > Social conditions.
Language and culture > United States.
Literacy > United States.
  • ISBN: 0822941228
  • ISBN: 9780822941224
  • ISBN: 0822957256
  • ISBN: 9780822957256
  • Physical Description xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2000]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
In search of rivers: womanist writers and the essay -- Toward an analytical model for literacy and sociopolitical action -- The genesis of authority: when African women became American -- Going against the grain: the acquisition and use of literacy -- From this fertile ground: the development of rhetorical prowess -- A view from a bridge: Afrafeminist ideologies and rhetorical studies

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