The Politics of Black Joy Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism
In the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement while abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. Lindsey Stewart wades into these uncomfortable...
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Northwestern University Press
2021
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