Table of Contents
Introduction - Kim Marie VazBlack Women's Lives and Cultural ContextsPART ONE: IN OPPOSITION: BLACK WOMEN'S SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF THEIR ACTIVISMAfrican Women's Legacy - Barbara A MossAmbiguity, Autonomy, and EmpowermentOrganizing for Racial Justice - Shirley J YeeBlack Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery Societies, 1832-1860Black Women and the NAACP, 1909-1922 - Dorothy C SalemAn Encounter With Race, Class, and GenderRacial Justice in Minnesota - Mary C PruittThe Activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson JohnsonThe Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Unionization of African-American Women - Deborah Brown CarterLocal 282-Furniture Division-IUE, 1960-1988Poor Black Sisters Decided for Themselves - M Rivka PolatnickA Case Study of 1960s Women's Liberation ActivismSearching for a Tradition - Joy JamesAfrican-American Women Writers, Activist, and Interracial Rape CasesPART TWO: IMAGE WARS: LITERARY AND POPULAR CONSTRUCTIONS OF BLACK WOMENThe Condition of Black Women in Spain during the Renaissance - Baltasar Fra-MolineroThe Rape Complex in the Postbellum South - Madelin Joan OldsOn the Use of Medical Diagnosis as Name-Calling - Bridget A AldaracaAnita F Hill and the Rediscovery of 'Erotomania'Sapphires, Spitfires, Sluts, and Superbitches - Elizabeth Hadley FreydbergAframericans and Latinas in Contemporary American FilmAfrican-American Single Mothers - Shirley M GeigerPublic Perceptions and Public PoliciesPART THREE: PERFORMING THEIR VISIONS'Oh, What I Think I Must Tell This World!' - Charles I NeroOratory and Public Address of African-American WomenBefore Althea and Wilma - Linda D WilliamsAfrican-American Women in Sports, 1924-1948Black Women in Concert Dance - Melanye White-DixonThe Philadelphia DivasSisters in the Name of Rap - Robin RobertsRapping for Women's LivesPART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGESLife Satisfaction and the Older African-American Woman - Bernita C BerrySisterhood among African-American Mothers of Daughters Addicted to Crack Cocaine - Aaron A SmithAppendixAppendix: A Brief Guide to Resources by and about African-American Women - Gwynne L Jenkins
