Product Details

• Published on: 1995-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 618 pages

From Library Journal
Similar in format to the other volumes of the series, this book is a collection of 32 scholarly articles, most reprinted from journals since 1989. The first dozen articles address theory in black women's history and black women in Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean, while the bulk of the essays concentrates on black women in 18th-through 20th-century American history. The quotation in the title was a motto of a training school for black women. Hine also edited the well-received Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (LJ 2/15/93). A shorter, older reader, Ellen Dubois's Unequal Sisters (Routledge, 1990), offers articles not only on African American women but other minority women as well. Recommended for undergraduate women's studies and African American history collections that do not hold the original sources.?Patricia A. Beaber, Trenton State Coll. Lib., N.J.
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From School Library Journal
YA?In the introduction to this richly textured collection of essays by 30 authors, the editors clearly state their goal: "to reclaim and to create heightened awareness about individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African-American [women's] survival and progress possible." After three general essays, the material is organized both chronologically and geographically, moving from the colonial era through the 20th century. The experiences considered are those of women from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, and the U.S. Topics include, among others, African women in the Atlantic slave trade; slave narratives of young women in the 1830s in the West Indies and the U.S.; property owning, free African American women in the South in the 1850s; the role of Mississippi African American women during the Civil War; and the significance of the costumes of 19th-century African American women. While the editors intend this reader as a text for courses in African American and women's history, the short, highly readable material will appeal to YAs.?Margaret Nolan, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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