{"product_id":"race-literature-women-contributors-to-the-a-m-e-church-review-1884-1924-hardback-9781496861689","title":"Race Literature; Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924 (Hardback) 9781496861689","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRace Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen Contributors to the a.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCynthia Lee Patterson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496861689\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages, 30 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.331 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Cynthia Lee Patterson has achieved a significant recovery effort by revealing the voices of numerous Black women writers who published in the \u003ci\u003eA.M.E. Church Review\u003c\/i\u003e. The author takes seriously these women’s varied contributions, and this volume makes a meaningful contribution to our understanding of Black women’s history, AME Church history, and the history of Black periodicals.\" - Christina Dickerson-Cousin, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–1916\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholarship on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious periodicals, particularly Black publications, remains sparse and often focuses on the theological contributions of male writers. \u003ci\u003eRace Literature: Women Contributors to the \"A.M.E. Church Review,\" 1884–1924 \u003c\/i\u003efills a gap by examining the prose contributions of over three dozen women writers to the quarterly publication of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination during this important postbellum, pre-Harlem era. An important work of recovery, \u003ci\u003eRace Literature\u003c\/i\u003e enriches our understanding of Black women’s intellectual history and the role these women writers played in addressing critical issues of their time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While the \u003ci\u003eA.M.E. Church Review\u003c\/i\u003e published poetry, fiction, and drama from women writers, author Cynthia Lee Patterson shifts the focus to the important prose essays contributed to the quarterly. These women used their contributions to claim cultural authority for Black women, answering Victoria Earle Matthews’s 1895 call for a \"race literature.\" Some of these contributors—Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances E. W. Harper, Gertrude Mossell, and Katherine Tillman—established literary reputations in their own day and remain salient in recent scholarship. \u003ci\u003eRace Literature\u003c\/i\u003e extends our understanding of Black women’s intellectual history by recovering biobibliographical information for the lesser-known contributors to the quarterly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Beyond \"Creation and Transmission of Literary Culture\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: AME Churchwomen Making History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Sociological Writings: Home, Family, Church\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Sociological Writings: Suffrage, Temperance, Criminality, Prison Reform\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: E. Marie Carter’s \"Notes of Travel\" Column, 1903–1912\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Matters Educational\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Matters Scientific and Philosophical\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Writing Race Literature in Extraordinary Times\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Women Contributors and Their Articles in \u003ci\u003eThe AME Church Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 1884–1924\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607745491224,"sku":"9781496861689","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/race-literature-women-contributors-to-the-a-m-e-church-review-1884-1924-hardback-9781496861689","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}