Brian Street and African American Feminist Practices: Two Histories, Two Texts

Authors

  • Faye Spencer Maor North Carolina A&T State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21623/1.8.2.4

Keywords:

feminism, racial pride, racial responsibility, race, literacy, literacy practice, literacy workers

Abstract

This article focuses on how Street’s naming and delineation of the concept of “literacy practices” and the “ideological model” of literacy enable us to see and understand the literacy work of two 19th century African American women “literacy workers.” It introduces and provides an overview of the work of Frances (Fanny) Jackson Coppin and Hallie Quinn Brown and seeks to add early Black feminist voices of literacy workers in spaces often left out of dominant discourses around literacy. This article reveals how literacy for African American was, and is, tied to political, and social survival of a people.

Author Biography

Faye Spencer Maor, North Carolina A&T State University

Faye Spencer Maor is former chair and associate professor of English at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Downloads

Published

2021-02-12

How to Cite

Spencer Maor, F. (2021). Brian Street and African American Feminist Practices: Two Histories, Two Texts. Literacy in Composition Studies, 8(2), 60–80. https://doi.org/10.21623/1.8.2.4

Issue

Section

Articles