Description: The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland in the twentieth century and directly engage with the ways in which race, gender, and intersectional identities are remembered, expressed, and contextualized.
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DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, an NAACP Image Award Finalist; The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland; and a collection of poetry, \Vi-ze-bel\ \Teks-chers\(Visible Textures). As with her creative process, Hill's scholarly research is interdisciplinary. An Associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky and a former service member of the United States Air Force, she lives in Kentucky. www.damarishill.com
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"A thoughtful and extensive exploration of connections between the suffrage movement and the Civil Rights movement, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow is a welcome contribution to college library American History and Sociology collections." --Midwest Book Review
"The American Heartland just got bigger--the essays collected in this volume take intersectional approaches to race, gender, sexuality, and politics to expand our view on lives and cultures in the Midwest." --Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas