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Hall, Rebecca.

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Not killing me softly: African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Not killing me softly: African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender./
Author:	Hall, Rebecca.
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1930.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135060
ISBN:	0496822845

Not killing me softly: African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender.
Hall, Rebecca.

Not killing me softly: African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender. - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1930.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004.

This dissertation provides history of African American women in slave revolts in a Trans-Atlantic context. Because there are no historical works that focus specifically on this topic, a central part of my project is to develop a methodology for uncovering previously elided acts. I begin in West Africa where I discuss female martial traditions in specific nations that were key in the Atlantic slave trade. I then turn to an examination of revolts during the middle passage, and end my inquiry in the early colonial formation of New York City and examine two revolts in the early 18th century where women's participation and leadership were prominent. I engage in a careful interrogation of sources to show what is at stake in the masking of women's actions in each specific historical location.

ISBN: 0496822845Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Not killing me softly: African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender.
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520 $a I engage in an intervention into the dominant U.S. historiography which maintains that women did not participate in violent slave revolt. Women's actions in slave revolts have been elided, and this elision occurs in the interplay between the primary sources and historians' subsequent interpretation of those sources. To reveal the processes by which masking occurs, I develop a methodology which allows me to read the sources against the grain, bridging the approaches of social history and aspects of post-structural discourse analysis.
520 $a An inquiry into the actions of enslaved women in violent revolt highlights the contours of a race/gender system which is based on the alleged passivity of the female slave, and reveals how the boundaries of this system were troubled. It is at the intersection of two fields: African American history and the study of the historical construction of gender, where the crucial effort to show how race creates and defines gender and how gender creates and defines race emerges. My goal is to substantively add to the recent scholarship which attempts to bridge these two fields---to uncover the construction of a race/gender system which has its roots in U.S. slavery.
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