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Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in African‐American History
Author(s) -
Mitchell Michele
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.00154
Subject(s) - silence , race (biology) , historiography , human sexuality , gender studies , history , african american , sociology , anthropology , ethnology , aesthetics , art , archaeology
In 1989, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham observed that African Americanists paid scant attention to issues of gender and women's historians typically ignored questions of race; she warned that this silence compromised the very analysis of US history. Much has changed since Higginbotham issued her cautionary words. Not only has Americanist literature on gender and race grown exponentially over the past ten years, African‐Americanist gender historians have produced some of the most influential monographs and articles in their field. This article surveys a decade's worth of conceptual breakthroughs in African‐Americanist historiography as it ponders the question of whether certain silences still remain.