Description: Examines material culture and the act of institution creation, especially through architecture and landscape, to recount a deeper history of the lives of African American women in the post-Civil War South.
Brief description: ANGEL DAVID NIEVES was Dean's Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History, Northeastern University, MA.
Review Quotes: In this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow.--Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom