In honor of Black Women’s History Month check out these books about black women, their lives, their struggles, and their achievements.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by
ISBN: 9780028658162
Publication Date: 2005-12-16
A five-volume set and supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
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Being Black by
ISBN: 9781895837773
Publication Date: 2001-09-25
Following in the highly personal tradition of essayists such as Dionne Brand and bell hooks, Althea Prince culls thirty years of lived experience into an important new collection.
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Remaking Black Power by
ISBN: 9781469634371
Publication Date: 2017-12-18
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations.
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A Woman's War by
ISBN: 9780810871007
Publication Date: 2010-01-16
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges: Cyber Warfare.
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Black Women and Popular Culture by
ISBN: 9780739192290
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential implications of those images, messages, and roles.
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How Three Black Women Writers Combined Spiritual and Sensual Love by
ISBN: 9780773429994
Publication Date: 2010-01-18
This is a study of women writers of the African Diaspora and their articulation of the erotic as an important aspect of human experience beyond the limits and expectations of society. Within the imaginary scope of the works of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand, the erotic is made manifest through rewriting narrative and poetic form.
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by
ISBN: 9780465018505
Publication Date: 2010-01-12
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement.
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Autobiography As Activism by
ISBN: 9781578062645
Publication Date: 2000-04-10
Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers.
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Sisters of the Spirit by
ISBN: 9780253287045
Publication Date: 1986-07-22
Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.
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Where We Stand by
ISBN: 9780415929134
Publication Date: 2000-10-04
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Standis a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
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Knowing What We Know by
ISBN: 9780813536590
Publication Date: 2005-09-06
In recent years there has been an attempt by activists, service providers, and feminists to think about violence against women in more inclusive ways. In Knowing What We Know, activist and sociologist Gail Garfield argues that this effort has not gone far enough and that in order to understand violence, we must take the lived experiences of African American women seriously.
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Black Resonance by
ISBN: 9780813562506
Publication Date: 2013-11-08
Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques.
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The Sisters Are Alright by
ISBN: 9781626563513
Publication Date: 2015-07-07
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti-black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves.
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Telling Histories by
ISBN: 9780807832011
Publication Date: 2008-05-02
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers.
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Black Women in Sequence by
ISBN: 9780295994956
Publication Date: 2015-11-01
As the first detailed investigation of Black women's participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world.
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women by
ISBN: 9781469620923
Publication Date: 2015-04-13
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.
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The Essence of Liberty by
ISBN: 9780826216571
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
The Essence of Liberty blends social, political, and economic history to analyze black women's experience in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation.
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Sista, Speak! by
ISBN: 9780292798380
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
This book is a major achievement by one of the brightest young scholars in the field.
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They Raised Me Up by
ISBN: 9780826220110
Publication Date: 2013-10-15
At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston. They Raised Me Up is the story of her battle to succeed in the world of jam sessions and jazz clubs--a man's world where women were seen as either sex objects or doormats.
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Recovering the Black Female Body by
ISBN: 9780813528397
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
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