Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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"Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson is about the love one Black woman had for her race, of men and women, and, finally, of herself. Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was a former slave and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pionee...

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Main Author: Green, Tara T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Subjects:
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, > 1875-1935.
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, > 1875-1935
1800-1999
African American feminists > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
African American women authors > Biography.
African American women > Public opinion.
African American women > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American feminists.
African American women authors.
African American women civil rights workers.
African American women > Social conditions.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
United States
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Introducing a respectable activist
  • A respectable activist is born
  • The new negro woman in Alice's early literature
  • Activism, love, and pain
  • Love and writing
  • Loving Alice after Paul
  • Love and education
  • Ms. Dunbar and politics (of love)
  • New negro woman's love and activism
  • For the love of family, film, and the paper
  • The respectable activist's love for the Harlem Renaissance
  • Love, desire, and writing
  • 'Til death does the respectable activist part.

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