From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
Author
Koritha Mitchell
Content
xi + 274 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Description
Covers depictions of African American women in domestic settings; examines how they are marginalized and demeaned; explores responses to Michelle Obama; and analyzes writings by Octavia Butler, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Toni Morrison.
Main subject
Anthropology and Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Criticism Politics
Mitchell, Koritha. From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed July 28, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2214.
