Citations:Afra-American
English: adjective
edit- 1990, Joanne Braxton, “The Outraged Mother”, in Joanne M. Braxton, Andrée Nicola McLaughlin, editors, Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance:
- Such language and imagery set the tone for later developments in Afra-American narrative
- 1993, Brenda Carr, “"A Woman Speaks... I am Woman and Not White": Politics of Voice, Tactical Essentialism, and Cultural Intervention in Audre Lorde's Activist Poetics and Practice”, in College Literature[1]:
- It is only later in the poem that the reason for her derision by and excision from the Afra-American community is revealed
- 1994, Maggie Humm, A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism[2], page 172:
- Afra-American feminist criticism could be said to begin in 1974 with two events
- 2000, M Eagleton, “Book Reviews”, in Gender and Education[3]:
- The highly sexualised representation of the Afra-American body
English: noun
edit- 1986, Joanne M. Braxton, “Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl": The Re-Definition of the Slave Narrative Genre”, in The Massachusetts Review[4]:
- Although other works appear earlier, this full-length work by an Afra-American writing about her experiences as a slave woman is indeed rare.
- 1997, Maggie Humm, Feminism and film[6], page 10:
- Further and complicating tensions were plainer in the 1980s when Afra-Americans pointed out that the white feminist focus on the body could be racist
- 1999, C. A. John, “Complicity, revolution and Black female writing”, in Race & class, :
- Given that it is more assimilable, liberal black feminism remains more likely to be promoted into the political mainstream as representative or normative among gender progressive Afra-Americans.
- 2016, Eden Wales Freedman, ““Come on brother. Let’s go home”: Dual-Witnessing in Toni Morrison’s Home”, in Parlour, Ohio University, →ISSN:
- wrestling with her own marginalization as an Afra-American during Jim Crow
- 2017, Eden Wales Freedman, ““The Revolution Begins at Home”: Exploring Women's Testimony as Reader and Witness”, in International Journal:
- While the work she did for the NAACP is laudable, Dolezal, in passing as black, co-optively anti-witnessed experiences lived by actual Afra-Americans