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Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Title
- Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Tara T. Green.
- Author
- Green, Tara T.
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- x, 266 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson is about the love one Black woman had for her race, of men and women, and, finally, of herself. Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was a former slave and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering woman who actively addressed racial and gender inequalities as a writer, suffragette, educator, and activist. While in her 20s, she took the national stage from New Orleans as an early Black feminist, active with the Black Club Women's Movement. From there, she built important relationships with leaders in New York, Wilmington, DE, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. She used her fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism to give voice to immigrants, poor people, women, Black people, and Creoles of color. Despite chronic illnesses, financial instability, and other struggles, her diaries reveal the ways she put herself first for the good of her mind and body, practices that became necessary after surviving an abusive relationship with Paul Laurence Dunbar-the first of three husbands. Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to construct a biographical study that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life as a respectable activist-a woman who navigated complex challenges associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of respectability politics"--
- Subject
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935
- 1800-1999
- African American feminists > Biography
- African American women civil rights workers > Biography
- African American women authors > Biography
- African American sexual minorities > Biography
- African American women > Public opinion
- African American women > Social conditions > 19th century
- African American women > Social conditions > 20th century
- African Americans > Race identity
- Harlem Renaissance
- African American feminists
- African American sexual minorities
- African American women authors
- African American women civil rights workers
- African American women > Social conditions
- Race relations
- United States > Race relations
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Introducing a respectable activist -- A respectable activist is born -- The new negro woman in Alice's early literature -- Activism, love, and pain -- Love and writing -- Loving Alice after Paul -- Love and education -- Ms. Dunbar and politics (of love) -- New negro woman's love and activism -- For the love of family, film, and the paper -- The respectable activist's love for the Harlem Renaissance -- Love, desire, and writing -- 'Til death does the respectable activist part.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-598
- ISBN
- 9781501382314
- 1501382314
- 9781501382307
- 1501382306
- LCCN
- 2021026021
- OCLC
- 1245472902
- Author
- Green, Tara T., author.
- Title
- Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Tara T. Green.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-598