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  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

  Womanist Prose

  by Alice Walker

  In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.
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  Ar'n't I A Woman?

  Female Slaves in the Plantation South

  by Deborah G. White

  Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and... (more)
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  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she... (more)
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  Ain't I a Woman

  Black Women and Feminism

  by Bell Hooks

  In this classic study, cultural critic Bell Hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, "Ain't I a Woman" is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and... (more)
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  The Wonder of Girls

  Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters

  by Michael Gurian

  A revolutionary approach to raising girls that combines groundbreaking research with practical parenting advice. In The Wonder of Girls, as in its predecessor, The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian presents radical and enlightening views of parenting. Using as his springboard up-to-date scientific research on female biology, hormones, and brain development and how they shape girls' interests, behavior, and... (more)
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  But Some Of Us Are Brave

  All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

  by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, Barbara Smith

  Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award. This ground-breaking collection provides a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women, from political theory to literary essays on major writers to work on black women's contributions to the blues. Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials... (more)
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  For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  by Ntozake Shange

  From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First... (more)
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  Bitch Is the New Black

  by Helena Andrews

  “The scathingly witty author examines a wide variety of topics that, beneath the jokes and sarcasm, address weighty issues (depression, aging, abortion) with wry astuteness…An irreverent, savvy and sharp memoir.” (Kirkus Reviews )
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  Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color--A Journey From Prison to Power

  by Patrice Gaines

  A reporter for The Washington Post traces her life, from her childhood on a military base in Virginia, to her troubled relationships with black men, her time in prison on drug charges, and her eventual success. Reprint.
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  Black Feminist Thought

  Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

  by Patricia Hill Collins

  In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde, but she shows the importance of self-defined knowledge for group empowerment. In the tenth... (more)
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  Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace

  by Angel Kyodo Williams

  Being Black has gained an enthusiastic following in African American and Zen communities. Angel Kyodo Williams shows black Americans how to develop a "warrior-spirit" of truth and responsibility that can lead to happiness and personal transformation. The principles and tools she offers provide a framework for addressing the African American community's unique worries, hopes, challenges, and expectations. Williams... (more)
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  Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman

  by Jill Nelson

  The face of journalism was forever changed after Jill Nelson came along. Volunteer Slavery, the memoir and explosive expose of her experiences in the white, male-dominated world of The Washington Post, served as a wake-up call to all Americans and placed Nelson at the forefront of the African American political arena. Now, the bestselling author is back with Straight, No Chaser, a call to arms written in an... (more)
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  Shifting

  The Double Lives of Black Women in America

  by Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden

  Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise 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... (more)
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  I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings

  by Renita J. Weems

  An associate professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and contributor to Essence magazine, Weems explores her own relationships and the pain women suffer as a result of rejection and violence. Weems relates her struggles to articulate her sense of "fundamentally a righteous stand: a woman's right to love whoever finds her lovely," a stand expressed through... (more)
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  Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology

  by Cheryl J. Sanders

  Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. Yet are the two compatible? Social ethicist Cheryl Sanders marshals some leading womanist thinkers to take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and to explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives.
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  Gender Talk

  The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities

  by Johnnetta B. Cole

  In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. In Gender Talk Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender. Examining why the “race problem” has become so male-centered and how this has opened a deep divide between Black women... (more)
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  When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

  by Paula Giddings

  When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended racist and sexist attitudes--often confronting white feminists and black male leaders alike--to initiate social and... (more)
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  Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

  by Delores S. Williams

  This landmark work in emerging African American "womanist" thought uses the image of Hagar--mother of Ishmael, cast into the wilderness by Abraham and Sarah but protected by God--as a prototype for African American women. Williams sees in the story of Hagar--an African woman, surrogate mother, homeless, exiled--an image of survival and defiance that is appropriate to African American women today. Index.
• Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's ActivismAlice, 1944- Walker

  

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  Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism

  by Alice, 1944- Walker

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  Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics

  by Traci C. West

  In Wounds of the Spirit , Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women. Distinctive... (more)