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Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody

Mitchell, Anne Michelle
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Womens Studies.
Bringing together Black Feminist and post-structuralist perspectives, this dissertation examines how the public discourse of the African American Civil Rights movement has created specific subject-positions that African American women must write through and with, if they are to tell their remembrances of that historical moment. Through textual analysis and archival research, this dissertation performs a queer reading of the Civil Rights movement. Previous scholarship on African American autobiography has centered on analyzing race, gender, and the experience of being oppressed by the dominant culture. My project differs from previous scholarship because it explores the ways that hetero-normative and racialized surveillance influences African American constructions of the self.
Anne Royster, PhD (Advisor)
Linda Mizejewski, PhD (Advisor)
Rebecca Wanzo, PhD (Committee Member)
Christine Keating, PhD (Committee Member)
201 p.
Womens Studies
black feminism; women's autobiography; African American studies; Civil Rights Movement; women's studies;

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  • Mitchell, A. M. (2010). Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mitchell, Anne. Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody. 2010. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mitchell, Anne. "Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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