Black Women in America

Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz Black Women's Lives and Cultural Contexts PART ONE: IN OPPOSITION: BLACK WOMEN'S SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF THEIR ACTIVISM African Women's Legacy - Barbara A Moss Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment Organizing for Racial Justice - Shirley J Yee Black Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery Societies, 1832-1860 Black Women and the NAACP, 1909-1922 - Dorothy C Salem An Encounter With Race, Class, and Gender Racial Justice in Minnesota - Mary C Pruitt The Activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Unionization of African-American Women - Deborah Brown Carter Local 282-Furniture Division-IUE, 1960-1988 Poor Black Sisters Decided for Themselves - M Rivka Polatnick A Case Study of 1960s Women's Liberation Activism Searching for a Tradition - Joy James African-American Women Writers, Activist, and Interracial Rape Cases PART TWO: IMAGE WARS: LITERARY AND POPULAR CONSTRUCTIONS OF BLACK WOMEN The Condition of Black Women in Spain during the Renaissance - Baltasar Fra-Molinero The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South - Madelin Joan Olds On the Use of Medical Diagnosis as Name-Calling - Bridget A Aldaraca Anita F Hill and the Rediscovery of 'Erotomania' Sapphires, Spitfires, Sluts, and Superbitches - Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg Aframericans and Latinas in Contemporary American Film African-American Single Mothers - Shirley M Geiger Public Perceptions and Public Policies PART THREE: PERFORMING THEIR VISIONS 'Oh, What I Think I Must Tell This World!' - Charles I Nero Oratory and Public Address of African-American Women Before Althea and Wilma - Linda D Williams African-American Women in Sports, 1924-1948 Black Women in Concert Dance - Melanye White-Dixon The Philadelphia Divas Sisters in the Name of Rap - Robin Roberts Rapping for Women's Lives PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES Life Satisfaction and the Older African-American Woman - Bernita C Berry Sisterhood among African-American Mothers of Daughters Addicted to Crack Cocaine - Aaron A Smith Appendix Appendix: A Brief Guide to Resources by and about African-American Women - Gwynne L Jenkins