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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship African American Culture
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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship African American Culture
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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship African American Culture
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Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.
Powerful and provocative,
illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.