Black women in America / edited by Kim Marie Vaz.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vaz, Kim Marie
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1995], ©1995.
Subjects:
African American women > Social conditions.
Black women > Social life.
United States.
Physical Description:xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : black women's lives and cultural contexts / Kim Marie Vaz
  • Black women's social history through the lens of their activism. African women's legacy : ambiguity, autonomy, and empowerment / Barbara A. Moss
  • Organizing for racial justice : black women and the dynamics of race and sex in female antislavery societies, 1832-1860 / Shirley J. Yee
  • Black women and the NAACP, 1909-1922 : an encounter with race, class, and gender / Dorothy C. Salem
  • Racial justice in Minnesota : the activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson / Mary C. Pruitt
  • The impact of the civil rights movement on the unionization of African-American women : local 282-furniture division-IUE, 1960-1988 / Deborah Brown Carter
  • Poor black sisters decided for themselves : a case study of 1960s women's liberation activism / M. Rivka Polatnick
  • Searching for a tradition : African-American women writers, activists, and interracial rape cases / Joy James.
  • Image wars : literary and popular constructions of black women. The condition of black women in Spain during the Renaissance / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
  • The rape complex in the Postbellum South / Madelin Joan Olds
  • On the use of medical diagnosis as name calling : Anita F. Hill and the rediscovery of "erotomania" / Bridget A. Aldaraca
  • Sapphires, spitfires, sluts, and superbitches : Afraamericans and Latinas in contemporary American film / Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
  • African-American single mothers : public perceptions and public policies / Shirley M. Geiger
  • Performing their visions. "Oh, what I think I must tell this world!" : oratory and public address of African-American women / Charles I. Nero
  • Before Althea and Wilma : African-American women in sports, 1924-1948 / Linda D. Williams
  • Black women in concert dance : the Philadelphia divas / Melanye White-Dixon
  • Sisters in the name of rap : rapping for women's lives / Robin Roberts.
  • Contemporary psychosocial challenges. Life satisfaction and the older African-American woman / Bernita C. Berry
  • Sisterhood among African-American mothers of daughters addicted to crack cocaine / Aaron A. Smith
  • Appendix : a brief guide to resources by and about African-American women / compiled by Gwynne L. Jenkins.