The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories: An Introduction • Janell Hobson
Part I: A fragmented past, an inclusive future
	1 Women are from Africa and men are from Europe • Monica Hanna
	2 Priestess, queen, goddess:The divine feminine in the kingdom of Kush • Solange Ashby
	3 Queen Balqis,“Queen of Sheba” • Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
	4 Black women in early modern European art and culture • Paul H.D. Kaplan
	5 Black women in early modern Spanish literature • Nicholas R. Jones
	6 The legend of Lucy Negro • Joyce Green MacDonald
	7 (Anti-)colonial assemblages:The history and reformulations of Njinga Mbande • Daniel F. Silva
Part II: Contested histories, subversive memories
	8 Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria: Cultural narratives of precolonial heroines • Aje-Ori Agbese
	9 Nana Asma’u: A model for literate women Muslims • Beverly Mack
	10 Finding “Fatima” among enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States • Denise A. Spellberg
	11 Phillis Wheatley and New England slavery • Jennifer Thorn
	12 Sally Hemings: Writing the life of an enslaved woman • Annette Gordon-Reed
	13 The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution: Kinship, gender, and everyday resistance • Nathan H. Dize
	14 The then and now of subjugation and empowerment: Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800) • James Smalls
Part III: Gendered lives, racial frameworks
	15 A history of Black women in nineteenth-century France • Robin Mitchell
	16 Living free: Self-emancipated women and queer formations of freedom • Vanessa M. Holden
	17 “Blood, fire, and freedom”: Enslaved women and rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba • Michele Reid-Vazquez
	18 Black women and Africana abolitionism • Nneka D. Dennie
	19 Ethiopia’s woke women: The nineteenth century re-imagines Africa • Barbara McCaskill
	20 Singing power/sounding identity:The Black woman’s voice from hidden Hush Arbors to the popular • Maya Cunningham
	21 Jamettes, mas, and bacchanal: A culture of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago • Allison O. Ramsay
Part IV: Cultural shifts, social change
	22 Wives and warriors:The royal women of Dahomey as representatives of the kingdom • Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
	23 Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the shifting paradigms of African historiography • Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch
	24 The Aba Women’s War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as anti-colonial protest • Egodi Uchendu and Uche Okonkwo
	25 Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris • Claire Oberon Garcia
	26 The transnational Black feminist politics of Claudia Jones • Carole Boyce-Davies
	27 Confronting apartheid: Black women’s internationalism in South Africa and the United States • Nicholas Grant
	28 Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms: Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the erasure of history • Jenn M. Jackson
Part V: Black identities, feminist formations
	29 Traces of race, roots of gender: A genetic history • Amade M’charek
	30 Is twerking African?: Dancing and diaspora as embodied knowledge on YouTube • Kyra D. Gaunt
	31 Sites of resistance: Black women and beauty in Black Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Bahia • Valquíria Pereira Tenório and Flávia Alessandra de Souza
	32 Hail to the chefs: Black women’s pedagogy, sacred kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic religions • Elizabeth Pérez
	33 Black women’s feminist literary renaissance of the late twentieth century • Carmen R. Gillespie
	34 Black women, sexual violence, and resistance in the United States • Janell Hobson and Donna E.Young
	35 African women’s political leadership: Global lessons for feminism • Gretchen Bauer
Index