Black women in America : social science perspectives / edited by Micheline R. Malson [and others].

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Malson, Micheline R.
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Subjects:
African American women.
Physical Description:vi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • African-American women's quilting : a framework for conceptualizing and teaching African-American women's history / Elsa Barkley Brown
  • On being the object of property / Patricia J. Williams
  • A response to inequality : Black women, racism, and sexism / Diane K. Lewis
  • The dialectics of Black womanhood / Bonnie Thornton Dill
  • Family roles, occupational statuses, and achievement orientations among Black women in the United States / Walter R. Allen
  • The economic fortunes of women and children : lessons from the panel study of income dynamics / Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill
  • Exploding the myth of African-American progress / James A. Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin.
  • Slavery, sharecropping, and sexual inequality / Susan A. Mann
  • For the good of family and race : gender, work, and domestic roles in the Black community, 1880-1930 / Sharon Harley
  • Womanist consciousness : Maggie Lena Walker and the independent order of Saint Luke / Elsa Barkley Brown
  • Black matrilineage : the case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff
  • "Together and in harness" : women's traditions in the sanctified church / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
  • Family, race, and poverty in the eighties / Maxine Baca Zinn
  • Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness : the context of a Black feminist ideology / Deborah K. King
  • The social construction of Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins.