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Transgression of Race, Gender, and Class
- Source :
- Crossings, Vol 14 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- ULAB Press, 2023.
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Abstract
- This paper aims to explore Mary Ann Shadd’s transgression of race, gender, and class boundaries by employing a close reading of the text, A Plea for Emigration. I will explore the triangular relationship between race, class, and gender seen in the text from intersectional feminist perspectives. My contention is that, through her activism by pen, especially in A Plea for Emigration, Shadd exposes the feminist voice that enables her to protest against racism, slavery, gender stratification, and marginalization based on class hierarchy. In other words, I claim that Shadd’s transgression of the borders of race, gender, and class lies in her activism and ideology as a woman, black, and marginalized. This paper will, therefore, show that Mary Ann Shadd strongly transgresses the borders of race, gender, and class as the first black woman who owned and edited a newspaper, inspired American blacks towards freedom, confronted her contemporary male leaders, exposed the female gaze during a period of history when the male gaze was predominant and authoritative, became a public speaker making the world listen to her while working with the so-called socially aesthetic people despite being a “negro”.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711107 and 29583179
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Crossings
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.487a76b087c04a1f8e471cc86b2a4bd0
- Document Type :
- article