The Afro-American woman : struggles and images
Sharon Harley (Author, Editor), Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Author, Editor)
""Civil rights activists, educators, writers, artists, and workers - these are the women of The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, an excellent anthology of essays that provides a more accurate image of the Black woman and her place in history and in the cultural development of our society. Originally published in 1978, The Afro-American Woman includes essays that highlight historical experiences common to Black women. The anthology also features essays that focus on early activists Anna J. Cooper, Nannie Burroughs, and Charlotta A. Bass. This book is a long out-of-print, valuable reference source. It was the first written by Black academics which analyzed these women's experiences from a historical and Black nationalist perspective."-- Back cover
anthologies
xiii, 137 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
9781574780260, 1574780263
36634424
Introduction to the 1997 edition
Part one: Historical perspectives in overview: 1. Northern Black Female Workers: Jacksonian Era / Sharon Harley ; 2. Discrimination Against Afro-American Women in the Woman's Movement, 1830-1920 / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ; 3. Black Male Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century Woman / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ; 4. Black Woman's Struggle for Equality in the South, 1895-1925 / Cynthia Neverdon-Morton ; 5. Black Women in the Blues Tradition / Daphne Duval Harrison ; 6. Images of Black Women in Afro-American Poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing
Part two: Three activists in focus: 7. Anna J. Cooper: A Voice for Black Women / Sharon Harley ; 8. Nannie Burroughs and the Education of Black Women / Evelyn Brooks Barnett ; 9. "Win or Lose - We Win": The 1952 Vice-Presidential Campaign of Charlotta A. Bass / Gerald R. Gill
Reprint. Originally published: 1978