The Women’s Convention idealization of domestic labor paired pragmatism with aspirational idealism.
Evidence
If the Training School’s decision to train servants revealed a certain amount of pragmatism about the employment reality of most black women, it expressed as well idealism in improving upon reality. Nannie Burroughs conveyed the school’s pragmatic idealism when she asserted: “Until we realize our ideal, we are going to idealize our real.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 964
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Reactionary thought explicitly naturalized women’s confinement to housework