| Description |
xxxiv, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award, this ground-breaking collection provides a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women, from political theory to literary essays on major writers to work on black women's contributions to the blues. Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials and a map for further research. For course use in: African American studies, feminist thought, lesbian studies, racism and sexism, women's studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women / Alice Walker -- Foreword / May Berry -- Introduction : the politics of Black women's studies / Gloria T. Hull, Barbara Smith -- Visions : recommendations for the future of Black women's studies -- Searching for sisterhood : Black feminism. A Black feminist's search for sisterhood / Michele Wallace -- A Black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- Selected bibliography on Black feminism / Patricia Bell Scott -- Roadblocks and bridges : confronting racism. One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)--an excerpt / Alice Walker -- Racism--a White issue / Ellen Pence -- Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith -- Face-to-face, day-to-day--racism CR / Tia Cross, Freada Klein, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith -- Dispelling the myths : Black women and the social sciences. Studying slavery : some literary and pedagogical considerations on the Black female slave / Erlene Stetson -- Debunking Sapphire : toward a non-racist and non-sexist social science / Patricia Bell Scott -- Two representative issues in contemporary sociological work on Black women / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- Creative survival : preserving body, mind, and spirit. Black women's health : notes for a course / Beverly Smith -- Three's a crowd : the dilemma of the Black woman in higher education / Constance M. Carroll -- Slave codes and liner notes / Michele Russell -- Black women and the church / Jacquelyn Grant -- Necessary bread : Black women's literature. Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith -- "This infinity of conscious pain" : Zora Neale Hurston and the Black female literary tradition / Lorraine Bethel -- Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson : a personal and literary perspective / Gloria T. Hull -- Black-eyed blues connections : teaching Black women / Michele Russell -- Teaching Black-eyed Susans : an approach to the study of Black women writers / Mary Helen Washington -- Bibliographies and bibliographic essays. Afro-American women 1800-1910 : a selected bibliography / Jean Fagan Yellin -- Afro-American women poets of the nineteenth century : a guide to research and bio-bibliographies of the poets / Joan R. Sherman -- On the novels written by selected Black women : a bibliographical essay / Rita B. Dandridge -- Black women playwrights from Grimké to Shange : selected synopses of their works / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller -- American Black women composers : a selected annotated bibliography / Ora Williams, Thelma Williams, Dora Wilson, Ramona Matthewson -- A listing of non-print materials on Black women / Martha H. Brown -- Additional references and resources -- Doing the work : selected course syllabi. General/Social science/Interdisciplinary ; Literature. |
| Awards |
Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award. |
| Subject |
African American women.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Feminism -- United States.
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African American women -- Bibliography.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Negers.
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Vrouwenbeweging.
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Women -- U.S. -- Social conditions.
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Black studies.
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American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Women authors.
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| Indexed Term |
African American women |
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African American women Bibliography |
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Feminism United States |
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United States Race relations |
| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies. (OCoLC)fst01919895
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Hull, Akasha Gloria.
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Bell-Scott, Patricia.
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Smith, Barbara, 1946-
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| Added Title Page Title |
But some of us are brave |
| Other Form: |
Online version: All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave. Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, ©1982 (OCoLC)559552782 |
| ISBN |
0912670959 (pbk.) |
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9780912670959 (pbk.) |
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0912670924 |
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9780912670928 |
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