Xiomara Santamarina: 1 book
Belabored Professions
Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
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...
