Black Women In White America

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : African American women
ISBN : UOM:39015047439032

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Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner Pdf

In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679743149

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Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner Pdf

Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this “stunning collection of documents” (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past. “A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this, the United States,”—Nathan Irvin Huggins “Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves,”—Maya Angelou

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : African American women
ISBN : UOM:39015014947744

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Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner Pdf

In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.

Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253056955

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Black Women in White by Darlene Clark Hine Pdf

" . . . pioneering. . . . This history, as Hine vividly depicts it, sheds light on the development of African-American professionals and offers as well the opportunity to analyze the intersection of race and gender." —The Nation " . . . well-researched and innovative . . . Highly recommended." —Library Journal "The book is full of poignant and sympathetic portraits of black nurses in their dedication and idealism, in their pain and anger at the relentless contempt of white nurses and in their deep concern for their community's health needs. . . . Hine has brilliantly fulfilled an aim other historians have neglected . . . " —The Women's Review of Books "This well-researched book adds breadth and depth to the existing literature on the educational and professional history of black nurses, including the development of black hospitals and training schools in the US. . . . Highly recommended." —Choice " . . . an important book not only because it is a serious effort to analyze nursing history in the context of American racism but also because it offers a vantage point on the experiences of black women at work." —Medical Humanities Review "Darlene Clark Hine has written a thoughtful analysis of the struggles of African Americans striving for professional status and recognition. . . . an illuminating study of the interaction of race and gender in the construction of a professional identity." —The Journal of American History This pathbreaking study analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession, particularly on black women in the profession, during the first half of this century. Hine uncovers shameful episodes in nursing history and probes the nature and extent of racial conflict and cooperation in the profession.

Author : Bert James Loewenberg,Ruth Bogin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271038247

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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life by Bert James Loewenberg,Ruth Bogin Pdf

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368101

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A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Pdf

Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.

Author : Tamara Winfrey Harris
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626563537

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The Sisters Are Alright by Tamara Winfrey Harris Pdf

GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”

Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African American women
ISBN : PSU:000054177666

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Black Women in America: H-Q by Darlene Clark Hine Pdf

Provides biographies and topical essays discussing the important roles Black women have played in American history.

Author : Judy Scales-Trent
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0271038705

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Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community by Judy Scales-Trent Pdf

In the tradition of Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, and The Sweeter the Juice, Notes of a White Black Woman explores the meaning of race in the United States, the power of racial categories in our lives, and the personal experience of being a black professional in an overwhelmingly white world.

Author : Brittany C. Slatton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317255710

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Mythologizing Black Women by Brittany C. Slatton Pdf

In this book Brittany C. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal contemporary prejudices about relationship partners. In doing so she thoroughly refutes the popular ideology of a post-racial America. Slatton examines the 'deep frame' of white men found in opinions and emotional reactions to black women and their body types, personalities, behaviours, and styles of speech. Their internet responses to questionnaires shows how they treat as common sense radicalised, gendered, and classed versions of black women. Mythologizing Black Women argues that the internet acts as a backstage setting, allowing white men to anonymously express raw feelings about race and sexuality without the fear of reprimand.

Author : Marita Golden,Susan Shreve
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307794789

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Skin Deep by Marita Golden,Susan Shreve Pdf

Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture.

Author : Cheryl Yvette Judice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015078809368

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Interracial Marriages Between Black Women and White Men by Cheryl Yvette Judice Pdf

Interracial marriages between African Americans and Caucasian Americans in the United States are the least common of all interracial marriages, with marriages between black women and white men being the less frequent of the two combinations. Since the 1990s, however, increasing numbers of black women have been marrying white men. This book examines the dynamics of race, social class and marriage in contemporary American society specifically with respect to marriages between African Americans and Caucasian Americans, comparing and contrasting the experiences of couples in both intermarriage patterns. Despite being the focus of extensive sociological and psychological research during the latter half of the twentieth century, most research on black-white intermarriage focused on African American men who married white women. Sociological research focused on the deviant nature of these marriages while psychological research focused on various pathologies attributed to couples who crossed the color line to marry. Little research was directed towards marriages between African American women and white men with even less attention given to delineating differences in the two black-white marital pairings. As marriages between African American women and white men have become more common, it is important to understand why this trend has emerged and how this marriage type differs from the more prevalent African American man, white woman marriage combination. This book is one of the first published on interracial marriages which focuses specifically on marriages between African American women and Caucasian American men in contemporary America. The author examines the historical, social, and legal contexts from which these marriages emerged while demonstrating how the race and sex of each partner is important to understanding how the marriage is socially experienced. Interracial Marriages Between Black women and White Men is an important book for collections in African American studies, sociology, and racial studies.

Author : Charisse Jones,Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061977114

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Shifting by Charisse Jones,Kumea Shorter-Gooden Pdf

Commemorating its 2oth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.

Author : Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807047422

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White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo Pdf

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

Author : Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300165418

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Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry Pdf

DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div