Political Discourse in African American Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520308
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Juntendo University
• Principal Investigator: Miyatsu Tamiko 順天堂大学, 医療看護学部, 准教授 (60509660)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: アフリカ系アメリカ人 / フェミニズム / NACW / 女性クラブ運動 / 革新主義時代 / アクティヴィズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study aims to position political statements made by African American women leaders, who overcame past traumatic memories of slavery and tackled race and gender prejudices, at the turn of the twentieth century within the history of black feminism. Among the black women leaders of the time, the actions and works of Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Anna Julia Cooper and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper were focused on. Although locally-organized women's clubs could not address political setbacks black women faced, these women leaders, most of whom had college educations, sent out radical messages and contributed to arousing women's political and social consciousness.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学・文化