Black Women in America [Hardcover]

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.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.Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz
Black Women's Lives and Cultural Contexts
PART ONE: IN OPPOSITION: BLACK WOMEN'S SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF THEIR ACTIVISM
African Women's Legacy - Barbara A Moss
Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment
Organizing for Racial Justice - Shirley J Yee
Black Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery Societies, 1832-1860
Black Women and the NAACP, 1909-1922 - Dorothy C Salem
An Encounter With Race, Class, and Gender
Racial Justice in Minnesota - Mary C Pruitt
The Activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson
The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Unionization of African-American Women - Deborah Brown Carter
Local 282-Furniture Division-IUE, 1960-1988
Poor Black Sisters Decided for Themselves - M Rivka Polatnick
A Case Study of 1960s Women's Liberation Activism
Searching for a Tradition - Joy James
African-American Women Writers, Activist, and Interracial Rape Cases
PART TWO: IMAGE WARS: LITERARY AND POPULAR CONSTRUCTIONS OF BLACK WOMEN
The Condition of Black Women in Spain during the Renaissance - Ball³m