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The New Woman Narrating The Histor(Ies) Of The Feminist Movement, Francesca Sawaya
The New Woman Narrating The Histor(Ies) Of The Feminist Movement, Francesca Sawaya
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To dip into the scholarship about the New Woman is to be puzzled by the extensive focus on and the strong disagreement about chronology. Why do some scholars offer such a wide range of years for the New Woman, and others such a narrow range? And why do the dates - whatever they may be - diverge so widely? What becomes clear is that date matter not because the New Woman can be easily periodized - after all, there are no legislative or political milestones that mark her entrance or exit from the public stage - but because she herself …
Corporate Capitalism And Racial (In)Justice: Teaching The Colonel’S Dream, Francesca Sawaya
Corporate Capitalism And Racial (In)Justice: Teaching The Colonel’S Dream, Francesca Sawaya
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Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NAACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as segregation, class among both blacks and whites, Southern nostalgia, and the Wilmington coup d’état of 1898. The portrayals of race, racial violence, and stereotyping in Chesnutt’s works challenge teachers and students …