Black Women In White America
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Author | : Gerda Lerner |
Publisher | : New York : Pantheon Books |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"In this fine collection of rare documentary sources, many of them previously unpublished, African-American women in their rich diversity speak of themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their struggles. Theirs are stores of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. In the spirit of the slave mother who counseled her daughter, "Fight, and if you can't fight, kick; if you can't kick, then bite," black women resisted sexual abuse and economic oppression, cared for black children and neighbors, and organized for survival and political power. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past"--Book cover.
Author | : Gerda Lerner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.
Author | : Darlene Clark Hine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
This pathbreaking study analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession, particularly on black women in the profession.
Author | : Melissa V. Harris-Perry |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300165412 |
DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div
Author | : Tamara Winfrey Harris |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2015-07-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1626563535 |
GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”
Author | : Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull |
Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1558618996 |
Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism. Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in women’s studies, confronts racism, and investigates the mythology surrounding Black women in the social sciences. As the first comprehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship, But Some of Us Are Brave was recognized by Audre Lorde as “the beginning of a new era, where the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” Coeditors Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith are authors and former women's studies professors. Brittney C. Cooper is a professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, including Eloquent Rage, named by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf read for November/December 2018.
Author | : Deborah Gray White |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393319927 |
"Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, Emerge
Author | : Darlene Clark Hine |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253211248 |
A collection of 14 essays by Hine (American history, Michigan State U.) from the past 14 years, covering African-American women's history. Topics include female slave resistance, Black migration to the urban Midwest, 19th-century Black women physicians, and the Black studies movement. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Dorothy Sterling |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393316292 |
Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.
Author | : Allyson Hobbs |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067436810X |
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.