Black Women Writers: useful concepts and terms by Professor Diana Paulin https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/q673ktm5tpz14r18 en-us 2021-01-09 14:38:41 UTC 2025-12-02 17:36:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Terms & Ideas Discussed in Readings (both required and optional) professordianapaulin https://padlet.com/professordianapaulin/q673ktm5tpz14r18/wish/1069810702 Black Women Writers: Useful Concepts and Terms (J-Term 2021)
 
Intersectionality (Crenshaw)
 
“culture of dissemblance” (Brittany Cooper)
 
“intimations” (Zadie Smith)
 
bildungsroman (literary convention) (Valerie Smith & Carby)
 
sentimental fiction (literary genre) (Valerie Smith & Carby)
 
“structures of confinement” (Valerie Smith)
 
“master’s tools” (Audre Lorde)
  • “Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” 
 
https://blackfeminisms.com/white-feminism/

https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf

critique of 19th century ideology: “cult of true womanhood”/“cult of domesticity” (Hazel Carby)
 
“Investment in respectability” (Brittany Cooper)
  • related  to 19th & early 20th century notion of “racial uplift”/Du Bois talented 10th
 
role of stereotypes (Cooper & Carby)

Partus sequitur ventrem: the child inherits the condition of the mother

miscegenation: interracial mixing as contamination of the white population
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