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Black Women in America

Edited by:

Kim Marie Vaz - University of South Florida at Tampa

Other Titles in:
Ethnic Studies (General)

January 1995 | 416 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

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.

Kim Marie Vaz

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

Appendix

Gwynne L Jenkins

Appendix: A Brief Guide to Resources by and about African-American Women

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