From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
Koritha Mitchell
University of Illinois Press
White women homemakers are granted respectability and safety; Black women homemakers endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place". From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.