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9780803954557

Black Women in America : Confronting Gender, Race, and Class

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    9780803954557

  • ISBN10:

    0803954557

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-11-02
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

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Summary

This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approach organized around the theme of activism enables an unusual and inventive selection of topics to be presented. The history, culture, sociology and psychology of black women are richly represented.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Black Women's Lives and Cultural Contexts
PART ONE: IN OPPOSITION: BLACK WOMEN'S SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF THEIR ACTIVISM - Barbara A Moss
African Women's Legacy
Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment - Shirley J Yee
Organizing for Racial Justice
Black Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery Societies, 1832-1860 - Dorothy C Salem
Black Women and the NAACP, 1909-1922
An Encounter With Race, Class, and Gender - Mary C Pruitt
Racial Justice in Minnesota
The Activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson - Deborah Brown Carter
The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Unionization of African-American Women
Local 282-Furniture Division-IUE, 1960-1988 - M Rivka Polatnick
Poor Black Sisters Decided for Themselves
A Case Study of 1960s Women's Liberation Activism - Joy James
Searching for a Tradition
African-American Women Writers, Activist, and Interracial Rape Cases
PART TWO: IMAGE WARS: LITERARY AND POPULAR CONSTRUCTIONS OF BLACK WOMEN - Baltasar Fra-Molinero
The Condition of Black Women in Spain during the Renaissance - Madelin Joan Olds
The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South - Bridget A Aldaraca
On the Use of Medical Diagnosis as Name-Calling
Anita F Hill and the Rediscovery of 'Erotomania' - Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
Sapphires, Spitfires, Sluts, and Superbitches
Aframericans and Latinas in Contemporary American Film - Shirley M Geiger
African-American Single Mothers
Public Perceptions and Public Policies
PART THREE: PERFORMING THEIR VISIONS - Charles I Nero
'Oh, What I Think I Must Tell This World!'
Oratory and Public Address of African-American Women - Linda D Williams
Before Althea and Wilma
African-American Women in Sports, 1924-1948 - Melanye White-Dixon
Black Women in Concert Dance
The Philadelphia Divas - Robin Roberts
Sisters in the Name of Rap
Rapping for Women's Lives
PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES - Bernita C Berry
Life Satisfaction and the Older African-American Woman - Aaron A Smith
Sisterhood among African-American Mothers of Daughters Addicted to Crack Cocaine
/f003Appendix/f001 - /f004Gwynne L Jenkins
/f003Appendix: A Brief Guide to Resources by and about African-American Women

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