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To Live an Antislavery Life
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class. Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention proceedings, and the advice literature printed in forums like Freedom's Journal, the North Star, and the Anglo-African Magazine, Ball demonstrates that black figures such as Susan Paul, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Delany consistently urged readers to internalize their political principles and to interpret all their personal ambitions, private familial roles, and domestic responsibilities in light of the freedom struggle. Ultimately, they were admonished to embody the abolitionist agenda by living what the fugitive Samuel Ringgold Ward called an \"antislavery life.\" Far more than calls for northern free blacks to engage in what scholars call \"the politics of respectability,\" African American writers characterized true antislavery living as an oppositional stance rife with radical possibilities, a deeply personal politics that required free blacks to transform themselves into model husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, self-made men, and transnational freedom fighters in the mold of revolutionary figures from Haiti to Hungary. In the process, Ball argues, antebellum black writers crafted a set of ideals-simultaneously respectable and subversive-for their elite and aspiring African American readers to embrace in the decades before the Civil War. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.
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Madam C. J. Walker and the Origins of Black American High Society
This article explores the early 20th-century hair-care pioneer Madam C. J. Walker’s relationship with emergent forms of American advertising and media. It argues that Madam C. J. Walker’s meteoric rise from anonymity to household name required extensive attention to media and publicity. By analyzing the steps that Madam Walker took to transform herself into a modern Black American celebrity, this article demonstrates that Madam Walker created a public persona that blended representations of success, wealth, and leisure with intentional expressions of racial responsibility. In addition to shedding light on the mass media’s role in the creation of global “high society,” attention to Madam Walker’s uses of publicity offers insight into the contours of a distinctive Black American interpretation of high society at the start of the 20th century.
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Racial Identity Development and Imposter Phenomenon as Predictors of Counselor Self-Efficacy
The authors utilized a correlational research design to examine the role of racial identity development and impostor phenomenon in predicting counselor self-efficacy among counselors-in-training of color. Racial identity development significantly predicts counselor self-efficacy, and imposter phenomenon is correlated with counselor self-efficacy. Based on the findings, the authors provide implications and recommendations for counselor educators and supervisors.
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Style Politics and Self-Fashioning in Mamie Garvin Fields’s Lemon Swamp and Other Places
This article explores Southern black women’s engagement with beauty culture, fashion, and style politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Mamie Garvin Fields’s personal history, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir, the article interrogates the ways that middle-class and aspiring black women designed, deployed, and enjoyed fashionable clothes and stylish creations. It argues that in addition to serving as part of a larger project of black middle-class self-fashioning, these efforts were powerful assertions of black women’s humanity, individuality, and determination to thrive as black women in the context of Jim Crow.
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