Community and Critique: The Rhetorical Activism of Black American Women's Memory Work

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories

In Community and Critique, Sara C. VanderHaagen analyzes Black women's memory work, a deliberate, public effort to create, preserve, revise, and circulate accounts of the past to strengthen community bonds and effect change. VanderHaagen draws from the resources of rhetorical studies, public memory studies, and Black feminism to examine key examples of Black women's memory work during the critical...