Frances E. W. Harper

A Call to Conscience

Utz McKnight

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English

Polity Press
30 October 2020

Literature: history & criticism

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today.

In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harper’s life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity.

This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.

By: Utz McKnight
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781509535538
ISBN 10: 1509535535
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 October 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Utz McKnight is Chair of the Department of Gender and Race Studies, and Professor of Political Science, at the University of Alabama.

Reviews for Frances E. W. Harper: A Call to Conscience

""It's rare to read a book that both recovers a brilliant political thinker who has long been neglected, and is filled with luminous insights about contemporary racial politics, but Utz McKnight has achieved just this. This is one of the best books I've read in a long time."" Alex Zamalin, University of Detroit-Mercy ""Utz McKnight brings to light Frances Ellen Watkins Harper as a visionary. Read this book to discover the incomparable life and penetrating thought of one of the nineteenth century’s most important public intellectuals. Absorb its lessons because, as McKnight so elegantly shows, Harper’s aspirations for our democracy remain necessary and timeless."" Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University