The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories

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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories: An Introduction by Janell Hobson
Part I A fragmented past, an inclusive future
	Chapter 1 Women are from Africa and men are from Europe
	Chapter 2 Priestess, queen, goddess: The divine feminine in the kingdom of Kush
	Chapter 3 Queen Balqis, “Queen of Sheba”
	Chapter 4 Black women in early modern European art and culture
	Chapter 5 Black women in early modern Spanish literature
	Chapter 6 The legend of Lucy Negro
	Chapter 7 (Anti-)colonial assemblages: The history and reformulations of Njinga Mbande
Part II Contested histories, subversive memories
	Chapter 8 Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria: Cultural narratives of precolonial heroines
	Chapter 9 Nana Asma’u: A model for literate women Muslims
	Chapter 10 Finding “Fatima” among enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States
	Chapter 11 Phillis Wheatley and New England slavery
	Chapter 12 Sally Hemings: Writing the life of an enslaved woman
	Chapter 13 The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution: Kinship, gender, and everyday resistance
	Chapter 14 The then and now of subjugation and empowerment: Marie Benoist’s Portrait d’une négresse (1800)
Part III Gendered lives, racial frameworks
	Chapter 15 A history of Black women in nineteenth-century France
	Chapter 16 Living free: Self-emancipated women and queer formations of freedom
	Chapter 17 “Blood, fire, and freedom”: Enslaved women and rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba
	Chapter 18 Black women and Africana abolitionism
	Chapter 19 Ethiopia’s woke women: The nineteenth century re-imagines Africa
	Chapter 20 Singing power/sounding identity: The Black woman’s voice from hidden Hush Arbors to the popular
	Chapter 21 Jamettes, mas, and bacchanal: A culture of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago
Part IV Cultural shifts, social change
	Chapter 22 Wives and warriors: The royal women of Dahomey as representatives of the kingdom
	Chapter 23 Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the shifting paradigms of African historiography
	Chapter 24 The Aba Women’s War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as anti-colonial protest
	Chapter 25 Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris
	Chapter 26 The transnational Black feminist politics of Claudia Jones
	Chapter 27 Confronting apartheid: Black women’s internationalism in South Africa and the United States
	Chapter 28 Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms: Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the erasure of history
Part V Black identities, feminist formations
	Chapter 29 Traces of race, roots of gender: A genetic history
	Chapter 30 Is twerking African?: Dancing and diaspora as embodied knowledge on YouTube
	Chapter 31 Sites of resistance: Black women and beauty in Black Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Bahia
	Chapter 32 Hail to the chefs: Black women’s pedagogy, sacred kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic religions
	Chapter 33 Black women’s feminist literary renaissance of the late twentieth century
	Chapter 34 Black women, sexual violence, and resistance in the United States
	Chapter 35 African women’s political leadership: Global lessons for feminism
Index