TY - JOUR
T1 - Black Women and the Pleasures of Intellectual Work
AU - Wall, Cheryl
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The University of Memphis
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - What does it mean for a Black woman to choose to do intellectual work? In the twenty-first century, Black women, either by virtue of their academic careers or their vocations outside of institutional settings, pursue intellectual work for its own sake as well as in pursuit of collective goals. That is to say, they can acknowledge intellectual work as a source of personal fulfillment, indeed a source of joy in ways that earlier generations of Black women could not. At least that should be true. In fact, it remains difficult for Black women to own the joy that their engagement with ideas produces.
AB - What does it mean for a Black woman to choose to do intellectual work? In the twenty-first century, Black women, either by virtue of their academic careers or their vocations outside of institutional settings, pursue intellectual work for its own sake as well as in pursuit of collective goals. That is to say, they can acknowledge intellectual work as a source of personal fulfillment, indeed a source of joy in ways that earlier generations of Black women could not. At least that should be true. In fact, it remains difficult for Black women to own the joy that their engagement with ideas produces.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12409
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12409
M3 - Article
SN - 0038-4283
VL - 59
SP - 16
EP - 27
JO - The Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - The Southern Journal of Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -