ABSTRACT

As a popular columnist for one of the largest black newspapers in the country, Evelyn Cunningham felt the palpable, unrelenting pressure of representing her race in the press. It was the inescapable lens through which she saw the world and filled her with guilt whenever she ignored it. On the surface, Cunningham was an unlikely feminist and race crusader. In her Pittsburgh Courier column “The Women,” published between in 1951 and 1955, she was more likely to tackle topics ranging from how passé bridal showers had become to the challenges of navigating a dying romance. But as this study found, upon closer inspection, her women’s column reveals a mid-century writer well ahead of her time—especially when it came to embracing her feminism, sexuality, and the world around her nearly a decade before white peers ushered in the second wave of feminism.

摘要

作为该国最大的黑人报纸之一的受欢迎的专栏作家，伊夫林·坎宁安（Evelyn Cunningham）感到在报界代表自己的种族时会感受到明显而持久的压力。这是她不可避免地看到的世界，每当她忽略世界时都会感到内。从表面上看，坎宁安是一个不太可能的女权主义者和种族十字军。在她的匹兹堡信使她在1951年至1955年间发表的“女性”专栏文章中，她更可能讨论的主题包括：过去的新娘洗礼如何成为风土人情的挑战。但是，如本研究发现，在更仔细的检查中，她的女性专栏文章揭示了一位世纪中期的作家，远远超出了她的时代-尤其是在拥抱女性主义，性取向和她周围的世界时，白人已经迎来了近十年的发展。第二波女权主义。