A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
10 best books like A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (Darlene Clark Hine): Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
| Author | Kimberly Springer |
| ISBN | 0822334933 |
The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational...
| Author | Jacqueline A. Jones |
| ISBN | 0394744144 |
Professor Jacqueline Jones presents the extensively researched history of the dual working worlds of black American women–at home and in the workforce–from slavery to present. She highlights the ways in which the unique cultural history of slavery as well as being subject to both sexism and...
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also movingly illuminates black women's painful...
| Author | Annelise Orleck |
| ISBN | 0807050318 |
In "Storming Caesars Palace," historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In...
| Author | Crystal N. Feimster |
| ISBN | 0674035623 |
Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world of white supremacist politics and patriarchy, a world violently divided by race, gender, and class, black and white women...
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| ISBN | 1592130925 |
Amazing book about the complexities and relationship between nationalism, racism and feminism in the USA. Whether the reader has little background in social justice issues or is an academic in the field, the book offers interesting insights into race and gender issues that women of colour have to...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
| Author | Tera W. Hunter |
| ISBN | 0674893085 |
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former master. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure...
| Author | Winifred Breines |
| ISBN | 0195179048 |
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated...
| Author | Laura Briggs |
| ISBN | 0520232585 |
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation,...
| Author | Marcia Chatelain |
| ISBN | 0822358549 |
In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists...
| Author | Jennifer L. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0812218736 |
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
| Author | Peggy Pascoe |
| ISBN | 0195094638 |
A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other...
| Author | E. Frances White |
| ISBN | 1566398797 |
Dark Continent of Our Bodies is a thorough analysis of Black Feminism and to a lesser degree sexuality. This is the first book I’ve read that is critical of beliefs that I thought were generally held to be true. For example, in chapter 3-Africa On My Mind- Dr. White discusses Black Nationalism which...
| Author | Gerda Lerner |
| ISBN | 0679743146 |
In this documentary history, black women themselves tell not only what it's like to be oppressed —as blacks and as women—but also how they have managed to survive. Here are stories of women who built a school "on a garbage dump"; of the little-known but vitally important networks of women's organizations...
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0822316900 |
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
| Author | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues...
| Author | Tiya Miles |
| ISBN | 0520250028 |
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master...
| Author | Vicki L. Ruiz |
| ISBN | 0415925177 |
In the Introduction trace the evolution of women's history. First it was mono-racial (only focused on white women in the North, then it became bi-racial (encompassing black and white women in the south), and finally it is now becoming multicultural. This new multicultural history privileges the...
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
| Author | Catherine S. Ramírez |
| ISBN | 0822343037 |
The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts...
| Author | Keisha N. Blain |
| ISBN | 0812249887 |
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s,...
| Author | Sarah Haley |
| ISBN | 1469627590 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
| Author | Bettye Collier-Thomas |
| ISBN | 0814716032 |
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil...
| Author | Dayo F. Gore |
| ISBN | 0814783139 |
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank...
