Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to government and civic powers in American democracy, Joy James gives voice to people and ideas persistently left outside mainstream progressive discourse--those advocating for the radical steps necessary to acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather than merely reforming those existing structures.

Product Description: Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker—from the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today...read more

Product Description: Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory, May places Cooper's theorizing in its historical contexts and offers new ways to interpret the evolution of Cooper's visionary politics, subversive methodology, and defiant philosophical outlook...read more

Furnishes a thought-provoking analysis of sexism and gender politics within the African-American community, tracing the historical conflict between race and gender issues, the impact of feminism, the role of the black church, attitudes toward sexuality, and popular culture, and cites the oppression of black women and the prevalence of male dominance. Reprint.

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Product Description: The purpose of this report is to ascertain the current status of women's studies nationally; describe the evolution of women's studies programming at the Ford Foundation since 1982; analyze major curriculum developments sparked by black studies, ethnic studies, and women's studies over the past two decades and identify pioneers and scholars in these fields; discuss new directions for women's studies; and provide recommendations for funding and general support of women's studies...read more

Tracing African-American feminist thought from the early 1800s to the present, an anthology combines the works of more than sixty African-American women, including Sojourner Truth, Lorraine Hansberry, and Shirley Chisholm. Original. (view table of contents)

Poetry, fiction, personal narrative, and essays explore the relationships between Black mothers and daughters

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