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• Title:"We specialize in the wholly impossible" : a reader in Black women's history / edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Wilma King, Linda Reed.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hine, Darlene Clark.
  King, Wilma, 1942-
  Reed, Linda, 1955-
  
• Published/Created:Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1995.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E185.86 .W435 1995
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African American women--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 618 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0926019805 :
  0926019813 (pbk.) :
  
• Contents:1. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  2. When Your Work Is Not Who You Are: The Development of a Working-Class Consciousness among Afro-American Women / Sharon Harley
  3. "What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics / Elsa Barkley Brown
  4. Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure / John Thornton
  5. African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade / Herbert S. Klein
  6. Concubinage and the Status of Women Slaves in Early Colonial Northern Nigeria / Paul E. Lovejoy
  7. Give a Thought to Africa: Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa / Sylvia M. Jacobs
  8. Women and Slavery in the Caribbean: A Feminist Perspective / Rhoda E. Reddock
  9. Study of Two Women's Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The History of Mary Prince / Andrea Starr Alonzo
  10. Defiance or Submission? The Role of the Slave Woman in Slave Resistance in the British Caribbean / Barbara Bush
  11. Search for Mary Bibb, Black Woman Teacher in Nineteenth-Century Canada West / Afua Cooper
  12. Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women in a Colonial Virginia Parish / Joan Rezner Gundersen
  13. Black Women in the Era of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania / Debra L. Newman
  14. From Three-Fifths to Zero: Implications of the Constitution for African-American Women, 1787-1870 / Mamie E. Locke
  15. Free African-American Women in Savannah, 1800-1860: Affluence and Autonomy Amid Adversity / Whittington B. Johnson
  16. Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870 / Loren Schweninger
  17. Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality / Susan A. Mann
  18. "A Career to Build, a People to Serve, a Purpose to Accomplish": Race, Class, Gender, and Detroit's First Black Women Teachers, 1865-1916 / John B. Reid
  19. Still in Chains: Black Women in Western Prisons, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Butler
  20. Southern Side of "Glory": Mississippi African-American Women During the Civil War / Noralee Frankel
  21. Domination and Resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta / Tera W. Hunter
  22. Sojourner Truth in Life and Memory: Writing the Biography of an American Exotic / Nell Irvin Painter
  23. Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century America: Subversion and Self-Construction in Two Women's Autobiographies / Beth Maclay Doriani
  24. Clothing as an Expression of History: The Dress of African-American Women in Georgia, 1880-1915 / Patricia K. Hunt
  25. "Civilization," the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Antilynching Campaign (1892-94) / Gail Bederman
  26. Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women / Stephanie J. Shaw
  27. Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon
  28. Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
  29. Black Community and the Birth Control Movement / Jessie M. Rodrique
  30. And Still I Rise: Black Women and Reform, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 / Lillian S. Williams
  31. "We All Seem Like Brothers and Sisters": The African-American Community in Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-1940 / Nupur Chaudhuri
  32. Black Women Activists and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson / Cynthia Griggs Fleming.