- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Discerning our standpoint: African American women as 'subject' Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Mary E. Church Terrell women of fortitude and resolution, 2000
- Creator:
- Nelson, Claudia D.
- Date of Original:
- 2000-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This thesis examines the contributions of early twentieth-century activists Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell to the social and political advancements of the African-American race. In an effort to rectify the study of African-American women as the other, the research sets as its goal to make African-American womens experiences subject and central to analysis. The tools employed are taken from three disciplines: African-American Studies, Women Studies and Political Science. The writer has also employed Black feminist thought as a research tool for examining the history and ideological concepts of African-American women. Key primary sources are utilized in constructing the foundation of the research. The writer relied on The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells, by editor Miriam DeCosta-Willis; Crusade for Justice an Autobiography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, edited by Alfreda M. Duster; A Colored Woman in a White World, by Mary Church Terrell and A Voice from the South, by Anna Julia Cooper. Essential to the theorectical framework are tenets found in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, by Patricia Hill Collins, which offers a paradigm through which the experiences of African-American women can best be interpreted. By selecting this research tool, the efforts of Wells-Barnett and Terrell as activists, educators, crusaders and clubwomen become crucial in understanding the significance of African-American womens contributions to racial uplift and social and political tolerance.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2000_nelson_claudia_d
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
