View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses November 2017 We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens: Black Feminist Visuality in African American Women's Art Kelli Morgan Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the African American Studies Commons, American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Art Practice Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Morgan, Kelli, "We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens: Black Feminist Visuality in African American Women's Art" (2017). Doctoral Dissertations. 1060. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1060 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WE ARE ROSES FROM OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS: BLACK FEMINIST VISUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ART A Dissertation Presented by KELLI MORGAN Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2017 W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies © Copyright by Kelli Morgan 2017 All Rights Reserved WE ARE ROSES FROM OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS: BLACK FEMINIST VISUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ART A Dissertation Presented by KELLI MORGAN Approved as to style and content by: _______________________ Manisha Sinha, Chair _______________________ James Smethurst, Member _______________________ Marla Miller, Member _______________________ Lisa Gail Collins, Member _______________________________ Amilcar Shabazz, Chair W.E.B.