The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America, and: Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities, and: Feminist Art and the Maternal, and: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (review)

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-195
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Feminist Art ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Feminist Revolution ◽  
Chicana Art

scholarly journals “Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1005-1031
Author(s):  
REBECCA J. FRASER ◽  
MARTYN GRIFFIN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Female ◽  
National Association ◽  
Women's Clubs ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Maria Stewart

This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before the formation of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in 1896. Looking deeper at arguments originally made by Maria Stewart concerning the denial of black women's ambitions and limiting potential in their working lives, the analysis employs the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, in particular his notion of the intellectual, to help reflect on the centrality of these black women in the development of an early counterhegemonic movement.

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