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005			20240726105147.0
008			200220s2020 ilua ob 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS153 _b.F766 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMitchell, Koritha, _e1
245	1	0	_aFrom slave cabins to the White House : _bhomemade citizenship in African American culture / _cKoritha Mitchell.
246	3	0	_aHomemade citizenship in African American culture
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aThe new Black studies series
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505	0	0	_aHouse Slaves, Housekeepers, Homemakers -- _tA Home of One's Own -- _tNo, Really: A Home of One's Own -- _tNew Negroes, New Homes -- _tHome as Human Right and Black Power -- _tStill the Master's House? -- _tThe Ultimate Home: Michelle Obama in the White House -- _tFrom Mom-in-Chief to Predator-in-Chief.
520	0		_a"Most Americans would agree that devoted wives and mothers make families strong and that strong families are the bedrock of society. Yet, throughout this nation's history, black women have managed to become model mothers and wives, but their doing so has not kept them from being mistaken for "welfare queens" and "baby mamas," the stereotypes that most consistently shape U.S. public policy. In this book, Koritha Mitchell shows the evolving connections between black women's homemaking and citizenship from domesticities of the slave cabin and to Michelle Obama in the White House. Drawing on canonical texts by and about African American women, Mitchell begins by connecting the roles of black women as rape survivor, race mother, single lady, matriarch, the strong black woman, and the evolving black women to the various roles that the site of the home served in the eras of post-emancipation, the New Negro, Civil Rights, post-civil rights, and the "post-racial." By looking at key protagonists in literary texts by authors like Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker, Mitchell exposes us to the palpable tension that emerges when African Americans, especially women, continue to invest in traditional domesticity even while seeing the signs that it will not yield for them the respectability and safety it should--black women might become decent housekeepers, but never homemakers. All in all, the confluence of these domestic locations and scripts shows that at every juncture, the home was a site where African American women and families negotiated and reasserted their citizenship in a society and culture that consistently and persistently continues to marginalize and assert violence against African Americans, regardless of how they met standards of respectability and citizenry"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican American women in literature.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _xSocial life and customs.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2601126&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hPS. _m2020 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell