African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race

E. Higginbotham

DOI:10.1086/494730

Corpus ID: 144201941

African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race

@article{Higginbotham1992AfricanAmericanWH,
  title={African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race},
  author={E. Higginbotham},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={1992},
  volume={17},
  pages={251-274}
}

E. Higginbotham

Published 1992

Sociology

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

PT-P HEORETICAL DISCUSSION in African-American women's history begs for greater voice. I say this as a black woman who is cognizant of the strengths and limitations of current feminist theory. Feminist scholars have moved rapidly forward in addressing theories of subjectivity, questions of difference, the construction of social relations as relations of power, the conceptual implications of binary oppositions such as male versus female or equality versus difference-all issues defined with… CONTINUE READING

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