Talk on African-American women's writing set Nov. 19
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:41:34
11:40 a m.. Nov. 15. 2007--UD's third Black American Studies (BAMS) cook bag instruct for this semester ordain take place from 12:15-1:10. Monday. Nov. 19 in Room 206 of the Trabant University Center.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar an associate history professor at UD who specializes in 19th-century African-American women's history will give a communicate titled “A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading. Writing and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia.”
Her instruct will explore the lives of African-American women from the dawn of freedom in antebellum America specifically the Northeast to the turbulent years preceding the Civil War. It ordain focus on the ways in which African-American women constructed their freedom and their respectability through the maintenance of "friendship albums." Through poetry sonnets and journal entries friendship albums document the notions of womanhood motherhood freedom and equality written and read by African-American women in antebellum Philadelphia.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/nov/dunbar111507.html
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