African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race
Title | African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1992 |
Authors | Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks |
Journal | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 251-274 |
Date Published | 01/1992 |
Abstract | Feminist scholars, especially those studying African-American women's history, must bring race into analyses of power more prominently, defining race, revealing it a metalanguage, and recognizing it as providing opportunities for exchange and context. Race must be acknowledged as an unstable, shifting, and strategic construction. |
URL | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/494730 |
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