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Colored No More: Research Question: How did Black women's in Post…

- - - - Black women's speeches
      - Books
      - Music
      - Fashion
      - Theater
      - Newspapers
      - Poetry
  - - - Discourse analysis
    - - "As African American women grappled with post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow realities, they began to articulate new ideas about race, class, gender, and sexuality. These evolving articulations, particularly in black urban centers like Washington, challenged the status of African American women in public life" (3).
        
        DC provided a national audience
        
        DC also silenced Black women through Jim Crow, and intra- and interracial sexism
      - Women of the "New Negro womanhood experience"
        
        Clubwomen
        
        Black suffragists
        
        National Suffrage March of 1913
        
        "Colored" school teachers
        
        Lucy Diggs Slowe/Howard
        
        Domestics
        
        Beauticians
        
        S Street Salon
        
        Blues women
        
        Fortune-tellers
        
        same sex couples
        
        Writers
      - Black women articulated a new Black women's standpoint
        
        Argued against Jim Crow, as it was being established
        
        Countered a white-woman centered "Women's Era"
        
        Re-imagined Black womanhood
        
        Demanded sexual freedom and responded to dominate tropes about Black womanhood
        
        multifaceted, "mosaic, authorial, constitutive individual and collective identity" (9)
        
        Reflected different strategies for change (progressive, gradualist and conservative)
      - Women from many different walks of live shaped discourses about Negro womanhood
      - "Colored" is racialized and gendered
    - - standpoint epistomology
      - intersectional