Sojourner Truth in Life and Memory: Writing the Biography of an American Exotic<sup>1</sup>

Painter, Nell Irvin

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.1990.tb00073.x

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“…Stories highlighting Tubman's resilience and strength can therefore have an unexpected utility: they can buttress mindsets that render black women's historical roles invisible or insignificant and can also reinforce logics of subjugation, even as they may be intended to commemorate insurgency. For instance, narratives of Tubman's strength can animate ideologies of savagery, dominant imaginaries Nell Irvin Painter has described as forms of "nineteenth-century primitivism and romantic racialism" (Painter 1990, 10; see also Painter 1997). Furthermore, since, "as a 'technology' of racialized gender, .…”

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Under-Theorized and Under-Taught

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2014

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Interpretive tools used to document and examine black women's insurgency can stifle as much as they reveal. Harriet Tubman is deservedly remembered for her sustained resistance to multiple forms of oppression. Yet, she is often portrayed in ways that misrecognize, distort, or flatten. Tubman is often discussed as an exceptional but lone figure or in ways that animate stereotypes of black women's unparalleled strength. Her life's work is also often fragmented, meaning that her varied activism and different forms of coalition-building remain undertheorized and under-recognized. Furthermore, via lenses of the maternal or salvific, Tubman's militancy is often softened, better to be embraced into the folds of the nation's progress narrative (a triumphal tale that erases the ongoing nature of many forms of systemic oppression she sought to transform). In short, Tubman is often made visible as a historical figure piecemeal, within narrow frames and in attenuated ways. Unfortunately, forms of "checking" Tubman's contributions have gone relatively "unchecked" in feminist scholarship: I conclude by discussing Tubman's relative absence in women's studies, though her life's work can readily be understood as pertinent to many of the field's analytics and themes. Tubman's contributions merit more than passing reference (if that) in feminist scholarship and curricula.

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“…These scholars and activists articulated how systems of oppression along race, gender, class, and sexuality are interconnected in the lived experiences of women of color to critique single identity politics that neglect the interdependence of multiple systems of inequality. For example, as early as 1851 at a women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth asked the simple but radical question popularized as “Ain’t I a woman?” (Painter, 1990, 1996), making clear that African American women’s experiences of slavery, racism, and poverty are central to the fight for women’s rights.…”

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Mapping the Travels of Intersectionality Scholarship: A Citation Network Analysis

Moradi

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Weis

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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In this study, we conducted a citation network analysis of intersectionality scholarship. We aimed to elucidate content domains in this scholarship’s citation network. In addition, we explored a citation-based genealogy of this scholarship, attending to the representation of women of color identified in prior critical analyses of intersectionality scholarship as key but under-acknowledged contributors to intersectional thought and praxis. We used CitNetExplorer to analyze a network of 17,332 records and 60,132 citation links. The analysis yielded 17 clusters, with the five largest clusters focusing on (1) conceptualizing intersectionality theory, methodology, and analysis; (2) psychology, identity stigma, and multiple minority statuses; (3) sociology of gender inequality, labor markets, and organizations; (4) political science, political systems and policy, including in the European context; and (5) violence against women, gender and health, and health equity. Although some of the key women of color contributors to intersectional thought were among the most cited authors in the network, others were cited infrequently or not at all across the network and clusters. Taken together, the analyses revealed substantial and ongoing engagement with efforts to define and refine intersectionality as epistemology and methodology. However, the analyses pointed to the need for scholars to reengage with, cite, and follow the examples of the women of color who contributed to intersectional thought by actually doing intersectional praxis that directly advances social justice aims. Some of the smaller clusters in the citation network reflected content domains, such as environmental justice and community planning, ripe for such activist-scholar work. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684320902408

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Changing Biographical Practices

Caine¹

2010

Biography and History

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Sojourner Truth in Life and Memory: Writing the Biography of an American Exotic¹

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