Belabored Professions(Updated) Narratives of African American Working Womanhood by XiomaraSantamarina Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5648-2, ISBN: 0-8078-5648-7
"According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in ..."
Belabored Professions(Updated) Narratives of African American Working Womanhood by XiomaraSantamarina Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2981-3, ISBN: 0-8078-2981-1
"According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in ..."
"Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more i ..."
"Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more i ..."
Belabored Professions Narratives of African American Working Womanhood by XiomaraSantamarina 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Univ Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7700-5, ISBN: 0-8078-7700-X
"1 12 13 14 of Congress (which led to the discovery of three Cincinnati reviews of
the book). ... Susan Graber, “A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life by Mrs. Eliza
Potter: Cincinnati in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Bulletin of the Historical and ..."
"This special issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and region cannot be separated and considers the new questions that emerge when the commas between these constructs are erased and their intersectionality becomes the starting point for analysis."
"A biography of the African American woman best known for her work with the Underground Railroad, describing her childhood as a slave, her escape to the North, her assistance to the Union during the Civil War, and her accomplishments during the Reconstruction years in helping former slaves adapt to freedom."
Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature by Pia Wiegmink 346 Pages, Published 2022 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-52110-0, ISBN: 90-04-52110-0