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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham |
ISBN: | 0674769775 9780674769779 0674769783 9780674769786 |
OCLC Number: | 25965363 |
Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 1984. |
Description: | xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Black Church: a gender perspective -- The female talented tenth -- Separatist leanings -- Unlikely sisterhood -- Feminist theology, 1880-1900 -- The coming of age of the Black Baptist sisterhood -- The politics of respectability. |
Responsibility: | Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. |
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If the period was so important for women but simultaneously a low point for black Americans as a group, then how should we understand the apparently contradictory politics of that time? Righteous Discontent accentuates the positive, finding in the contradiction 'a creative tension that both motivated and empowered black women to speak out.' Ms. Higginbotham moves beyond the dichotomous thinking that has often short-circuited our attempts to understand the situation of black women... An important, sophisticated, and richly instructive book. -- Suzanne Lebsock * New York Times Book Review * Higginbotham's book is populated with fascinating and accomplished women... [Her] research is impeccable and her work both ambitious and important. Righteous Discontent contributes significantly to the still underappreciated history of the black church in America. -- Adele Logan Alexander * Washington Post Book World * Higginbotham has pioneered a study of a long-neglected component of the African-American experience. This book is a powerful and compelling story of the religious life of African-American women and their resistance to racism and sexism. Through Higginbotham's work, the voices of African-American women, which have remained silent too long, emerge distinct and bold. -- Jill Watts * Journal of American History * A landmark contribution to American religious history. * Choice * Read more...


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