A Black Women s History of the United States

• Author : Daina Ramey Berry,Kali Nicole Gross
• Publisher : Beacon Press
• Release : 04 February 2020

2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine Award A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own

• Author : Darlene Clark Hine
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1990

• Author : Mia E. Bay,Farah J. Griffin,Martha S. Jones,Barbara D. Savage
• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• Release : 13 April 2015

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated

• Author : Nancy A. Hewitt,Anne M. Valk
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 21 October 2020

The most important collection of essays on American Women’s History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women’s history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture,

• Author : Glenda Riley
• Publisher : Harlan Davidson
• Release : 05 June 1987

"This book ... presents an introduction to the history of women in the United States that combines factual knowledge with a specific thesis intended to provoke discussion and further thought. It is my hope that it will inform, enlighten, and expand the thinking of all who read it. In an attempt to achieve these goals, this book necessarily emphasizes what historian Kathryn Kish Sklar terms 'gender specific' experiences. It focuses on those historical episodes that are more germane to one gender

• Author : Janell Hobson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 17 March 2021

In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: A fragmented past, an inclusive future Contested

• Author : Susan Willis
• Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
• Release : 05 June 1987

Focusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fictions have been shaped by the history of the United states, and the ways in which they intervene in that history. She sees the transition from an agrarian to an urban society as the critical moment of that history, and argues that writings by black women articulate that change in their content as well as

• Author : Linda K. Kerber,Jane Sherron De Hart
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 05 June 1995

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the

• Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Merline Pitre
• Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
• Release : 03 March 2008

Though often consigned to the footnotes of history, African American women are a significant part of the rich, multiethnic heritage of Texas and the United States. Until now, though, their story has frequently been fragmented and underappreciated. Black Women in Texas History draws together a multi-author narrative of the experiences and impact of black American women from the time of slavery until the recent past. Each chapter, written by an expert on the era, provides a readable survey and overview

• Author : Rosalyn Terborg-Penn,Andrea Benton Rushing
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1996

Women in Africa and the African Diaspora examines the role and place of women of the African diaspora. Contributors clarify the concept, methodology, and projected guidelines for studies of women throughout the African diaspora.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1990

• Author : Avery Washington
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 November 2021

The oversexualization of black women has been going on since the days of slavery in the United States of America. This practice has demoralized, objectified and marginalized women of color to be viewed only as sexual objects. Avery Washington writes about the impact oversexualization of black women has negatively impacted black women, black culture and the black community. He also writes about possible solutions to help heal and reverse this false narrative of black women.

• Author : Nancy Woloch
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 July 2001

The 2d edition of this concise history has been revised to incorporate continuing research in the fast-growing field of Women’s History. Additions to the text include an exploration of women’s experiences and roles in various ethnic groups as well as three new sections: "The Trans-Mississippi West", "Migrants and Immigrants" and "Women and the Law". Woloch’s lucid, lively and thorough survey retains the same comprehensive style that has made it the best-selling narrative text in American Women’s

• Author : Barbara Sicherman
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 1980

• Author : Danielle L. McGuire
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 07 September 2010

Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses,