AF AMER 6 Lecture 5: Week 3
Document Summary
Davis"s new introduction reads herself reading douglass in 1969: Gendered critique of the paradigmatic slave narrative. Idea of black freedom as the reclamation of black manhood. Black freedom as a coincident term with black manhood. Extinguishes the experience of not being a black male. Can"t speak of all black people if in the view of a man. Black manhood has become a liability in the interaction of the man with the state. A transcendance of slavery? the option that denies the narrative to women. What is the assertion of womanhood for black women? (harriet jacobs) Mulatto slaves of the household are the ones who get sold first because the mistress doesn"t want to see the bastards. Aura of illegitimacy - sexual relations are a function of force, father with no claim of paternity. How important it is for douglass to speak with authority.
