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The Entrance of Race and Gender in Traditional "Nadir" and Progressive Era Histories |
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Only the black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole. . . race enters with me.
Anna Julia Cooper, 1892
Anna J. Cooper was speaking to late nineteenth century black clergymen about the central role that African American women played in their communities. Her words, however, say something to us who in the early twenty-first century are attempting to better understand American Progressive Era history.
Studies of race and gender shift the focus of traditional histories from the top down. Since women and most African Americans were disenfranchised during the Progressive period, traditional Progressive Era histories assume that they had little impact on the period. In turn, African American historians focus on the violence and repression of this period to deny the conception of this era as progressive. Histories of the black experience during the Progressive Era defined this period as the “nadir” of race relations.
With the entrance of black women into American histories, issues of race and gender combine in such a way as to shift the focus of both traditional African American and Progressive Era histories. This paper analyzes the ways in which histories which look either specifically at black women or more generally at the combination of race and gender challenge both African American and traditional Progressive Era historiography. It also explores how this newer scholarship reveals the contradictions in American conceptions of citizenship and civilization. |
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Name: Association for the Study of African American Life and History
URL: http://www.asalh.org
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MLA Citation:
| Wright, Stephanie. "The Entrance of Race and Gender in Traditional "Nadir" and Progressive Era Histories" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC, Oct 02, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p207066_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Wright, S. , 2007-10-02 "The Entrance of Race and Gender in Traditional "Nadir" and Progressive Era Histories" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p207066_index.html |
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Abstract: Only the black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole. . . race enters with me.
Anna Julia Cooper, 1892
Anna J. Cooper was speaking to late nineteenth century black clergymen about the central role that African American women played in their communities. Her words, however, say something to us who in the early twenty-first century are attempting to better understand American Progressive Era history.
Studies of race and gender shift the focus of traditional histories from the top down. Since women and most African Americans were disenfranchised during the Progressive period, traditional Progressive Era histories assume that they had little impact on the period. In turn, African American historians focus on the violence and repression of this period to deny the conception of this era as progressive. Histories of the black experience during the Progressive Era defined this period as the “nadir” of race relations.
With the entrance of black women into American histories, issues of race and gender combine in such a way as to shift the focus of both traditional African American and Progressive Era histories. This paper analyzes the ways in which histories which look either specifically at black women or more generally at the combination of race and gender challenge both African American and traditional Progressive Era historiography. It also explores how this newer scholarship reveals the contradictions in American conceptions of citizenship and civilization. |
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