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Author White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-

Title Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994 / by Deborah Gray White.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.48896 W583T    Check Shelf
Description 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-310) and index.
Summary "Too Heavy a Load explores this century's rich history of black women defending, defining, and explaining themselves. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, it also brings to light and celebrates twentieth-century African American women's unlauded support for women's rights, civil rights, and civil liberties. Too Heavy a Load also takes us beyond the reach of history in its moving and fascinating illumination of black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable pull of the agendas of white women and black men. Finally, it tells the larger and lamentable story of how Americans began this century measuring racial progress by the status of black women, but gradually came to focus on the status of black men - the masculinization of America's racial consciousness."--Jacket.
Contents Introduction: Divided Against Myself -- Ch. 1. The First Step in Nation-Making -- Ch. 2. The Dilemmas of Nation-Making -- Ch. 3. Their Own Best Argument -- Ch. 4. A New Era -- Ch. 5. Rethinking Place -- Ch. 6. The Sacrifices of Unity -- Ch. 7. Making a Way Out of No Way -- Epilogue: The Past and Future Meet.
Subject African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799443
African American women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799467
African American women -- Societies and clubs. (OCoLC)fst00799469
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0393046672
9780393046670
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