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Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children

Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children

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Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children

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Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children

Publisher

Saint Louis: Saint Louis University

Journal title

African American review, 2006-12, Vol.40 (4), p.795-811

Language

English

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Saint Louis: Saint Louis University

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Contents

When the activist, educator, and clubwoman Mary Church Terrell discussed "The Modern Woman" in a 1916 lecture in Charleston, her decorous physical persona impressed her audience as much as did her ideas about the role of women to racial service.1 A young audience member wrote rapturously of the event in her memoir, "Oh, my, when I saw her walk onto...

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Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_209801342

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_209801342

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ISSN

1062-4783

E-ISSN

1945-6182

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