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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1439161
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 26
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Romantic Correspondence as Queer Extracurriculum: The Self-Education for Racial Uplift of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus
Pamela VanHaitsma
College Composition and Communication, v69 n2 p182-207 2017
This essay advances same-sex romantic correspondence as a pre-Stonewall site of rhetoric's queer extra curriculum. Grounded in archival research on African American women Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus, I argue their epistolary exchange was animated by queer erotics that enabled their participation in self-education for racial uplift.
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Intimacy, Homosexuality, African Americans, Females, Access to Education, Educational History, LGBTQ People, United States History, Rhetoric, Independent Study, African American History, Literacy, Racial Factors, Social Mobility, Racism
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