Pauli Murray in the 1930s: portraits and post-soul eccentricity

<p>In my thesis I follow the qualities in Murray’s life that suggest contrariety and eccentricity. In particular, I trace Murray’s performances in her portraits from the 1930s, which display her racial, gender, and sex reinvention. I illuminate these portraits as markers of Post-Soul Eccentricity to place Murray in a tradition in which her quare performance can be understood and suggest that her offbeat performances were part of her politics invested in Queer World-Making. I locate these ideas in portraits of Pauli Murray’s scrapbook viewed synchronously with her autobiography, Song in A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (1987) and biographical sources.</p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Women's & Gender Studies

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Scriven, Sarah

• Pauli Murray
• queer world-making
• African American history
• black feminist intellectual history
• LGBTQ history

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/249

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1256