Black Women in America ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Vaz   Kim Marie  

Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year： 1994

E-ISBN: 9781452255064

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780803954557

Subject： B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy )

Keyword： 伦理学(道德哲学)

Language： ENG

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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.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Organization of the Anthology

Introduction: Black Women's Lives and Cultural Contexts

Part I - Black Women's Social History Through the Lens of Their Activism

Chapter 1 - African Women's Legacy: Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment

Chapter 2 - Organizing for Racial Justice: Black Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery Societies, 1832–1860

Chapter 3 - Black Women and the NAACP, 1909–1922: An Encounter With Race, Class, and Gender

Chapter 4 - Racial Justice in Minnesota: The Activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson

Chapter 5 - The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Unionization of African-American Women: Local 282-Furniture Division-IUE, 1960–1988

Chapter 6 - Poor Black Sisters Decided for Themselves: A Case Study of 1960s Women's Liberation Activism

Chapter 7 - Searching for a Tradition: African-American Women Writers, Activists, and Interracial Rape Cases

Part II - Image Wars: Literary and Popular Constructions of Black Women

Chapter 8 - The Condition of Black Women in Spain During the Renaissance

Chapter 9 - The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South

Chapter 10 - On the Use of Medical Diagnosis as Name-Calling: Anita F. Hill and the Rediscovery of "Erotomania"

Chapter 11 - Sapphires, Spitfires, Sluts, and Superbitches: Aframericans and Latinas in Contemporary American Film

Chapter 12 - African-American Single Mothers: Public Perceptions and Public Policies

Part III - Performing Their Visions

Chapter 13 - "Oh, What I Think I Must Tell This World!": Oratory and Public Address of African-American Women

Chapter 14 - Before Althea and Wilma: African-American Women in Sports, 1924–1948

Chapter 15 - Black Women in Concert Dance: The Philadelphia Divas

Chapter 16 - Sisters in the Name of Rap: Rapping for Women's Lives

Part IV - Contemporary Psychosocial Challenges

Chapter 17 - Life Satisfaction and the Older African-American Women

Chapter 18 - Sisterhood Among African-American Mothers of Daughters Addicted to Crack Cocaine

Appendix: A Brief Guide to Resources By and About African-American Women

Index

About the Contributors

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