Bibliograph

Black women in white America, a documentary history, edited by Gerda Lerner

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Black women in white America, a documentary history, edited by Gerda Lerner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black women in white America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

282004

Responsibility statement

edited by Gerda Lerner

Sub title

a documentary history

Summary

"In this fine collection of rare documentary sources, many of them previously unpublished, African-American women in their rich diversity speak of themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their struggles. Theirs are stores 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. In the spirit of the slave mother who counseled her daughter, "Fight, and if you can't fight, kick; if you can't kick, then bite," black women resisted sexual abuse and economic oppression, cared for black children and neighbors, and organized for survival and political power. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past"--Book cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Mary McLead Bethune --- I. Slavery. 1. Purchase and sale -- 2. Tell it like it was -- 3. The struggle for survival -- Day-to-day resistance -- 4. A woman's fate -- 5. On the road to freedon --- II. The struggle for education. 1. Learning to teach -- 2. Teaching the freedom -- 3. School founders --- III. A woman's lot. 1. Black women are sex objects for white men -- 2. The myth of the bad black woman -- 3. The rape of black women as a weapon of terror -- 4. Black women attack the lynching system --- IV. Making a living. 1. Doing domestic work -- 2. From service jobs to the factory --- V. Survival is a form of resistance --- VI. In government service and political life --- VII. The monster prejudice. 1. In the grip of the monster -- 2. Freedom -- now --- VIII. Lifting as we climb. 1. From benevolent societies to national club movement -- 2. Interracial work -- 3. Inside a white organization -- the Young Women's Christian Association -- 4. Grass-roots work --- IX. Race pride --- X. Black women speak of womanhood

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