AASP 313/WMST 314
The Book Reviews
Description
Guide to Book Reviews
Bibliography:
Monographs for First Review
Autobiography and Biography for Second Review
Description
Three written reviews,
due on the dates indicated in the course outline are required. Each review
is worth 20 points, or 1/5 of your final grade.
It is highly unlikely
you have written a paper similar to the papers expected in this course. However,
since you will be expected to write this type of paper in graduate school
(or even in preparation for a senior honors thesis) there is a reason for
this madness.
The first paper will
review a scholarly monograph in black women’s history. The second paper will
review an autobiography by a woman of the African diaspora. The third paper
will review a film (either a feature-length documentary or a feature film)
in which black women play a central role. A bibliography/filmography is provided.
If you have a work you wish to review that is not listed, you must clear
it with me at least three weeks prior to the due date.
The review should,
of course, contain describe the content, narrate the main story or stories,
and comment on the writing (or presentation) of the material. (“Do you like
the lyrics and can you dance to it?”) You may wish to relate some detail
or fact you find particularly representative of the book. This stuff should
be basic and familiar from other reviews you have done for other course.
However, this paper
is more than a mere review. The primary objective of the paper is to place
the reviewed material within the intellectual narratives in which it first
appeared and, when necessary, within a current framework. For example, a
review of Alfreda Duster’s edition of her mother’s autobiography, Crusade
for Freedom: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1970) would consider the late 1960s and early 1970s during
which Duster edited and published the original manuscript (under the supervision
of John Hope Franklin) and the import of Wells-Barnett’s campaign against
lynching (and other causes) in context of social justice movements today.
A particularly nuanced review would perhaps note the book’s transition from
an essential early text in “Black history” to an important “women’s history”
book or even to “African American women’s history.” A spectacular review
would step even further into the historiography to consider the context –
the motivations – of Ida B. Wells-Barnett who penned the original manuscript
in the mid-1920s.
Wait! Just like a Ginsu knife, there’s more!
I don’t expect you
to simply know all this stuff, in part because I suspect that many students
slept through American history in high school. To compensate for these earlier
bouts of narcolepsy, the review you write must also include a discussion
of at least three reviews written by scholars in academic journals. “Academic
journals” are defined as peer-reviewed and controlled serial publications
intended for experts and advanced laypersons in the field. The objective
of this section of the paper is to familiarize you with how scholars view
the work’s “place” in the academy and sometimes in popular culture. Many
of these reviews will also discuss pertinent scholarly debates that are addressed
by the work under consideration.
Obtaining these scholarly
reviews will require further research. Many good (and appropriate) reviews
can be located online through JSTOR which permits limiting searches to book
reviews. Other online databases such as Academic Search, American History
and Life, Arts and Humanities Search, etc., (see below) provide citations
to reviews; you will need to physically obtain a copy of the journal in McKeldin.
Thus, to continue with the Crusade example, the reviewer would read and discuss
Richard Dalfiume’s review in the Journal of Southern History; William Tuttle’s
review in the Journal of American History; and Benjamin Quarles’ review essay
in The American Historical Review. Since these reviews all appeared in 1971,
it may be enlightening to include a brief discussion of another, more recent,
scholarly work that draws heavily on the Wells-Barnett autobiography: Joanne
Braxton’s Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within Tradition
or perhaps, Alice Deck’s mention of Wells-Barnett in her review of Elaine
Brown’s autobiography in the African American Review. (All of these reviews
mentioned here were found in JSTOR). Of course, some students may take this
assignment to even greater lengths and look in microfilm of the Chicago Sun-Times
for a 1970 review of the book. (Although the Sun-Times is not a scholarly
journal, it could be useful for establishing the historical context.)
Scholarly reviews
and film critiques in journals such as Film Quarterly, can be found in McKeldin
Library; a guide to film reviews sources and journals can be found online
at http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/GUIDES/film_reviews.html.
Again, an appropriate review is not a “Thumbs Up” snippet from People Magazine;
however an extended critique by cultural critics such as Frank Rich, Margo
Jefferson, or Pauline Kael in the New York Times, may be appropriate.
A Guide to Finding Reviews:
1) Review a scholarly monograph in black women's history:
Academic Search
America History and Life
Historical Abstracts
International Index to Black Periodicals
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Search
Women's Resources International
2) Review an autobiography:
Academic Search
African American Biographical Database
International Index to Black Periodicals
Book Review Digest
MLA Bibliography
Contemporary Authors
Literature Resource Center
3) Review a film
Academic Search
International Index to the Performing Arts
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Arts and Humanities Search
Humanities Index
Bibliography for Reviews
Monographs on African/African American Women’s History (For First Book Review)
Alexander, Adele.
Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789, 1879. Fayetteville:
University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
Allman, Jean Marie.
"I will not eat stone": a women's history of colonial Asante Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann; Oxford: J. Currey; Cape Town, South Africa: D. Philip, 2000.
Andolsen, Barbara
Hilkert. Daughters of Jefferson, daughters of bootblacks: racism and American
feminism Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986. xiv, 130 p.; 24 cm.
Aptheker, Bettina
Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex and Class in American History. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.
Banner-Haley, Charles
T. The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
Barnes, Terri. “We
women worked so hard": gender, urbanization, and social reproduction in colonial
Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999.
Bay, Mia. The White
Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Beasley, Ina. Before
the wind changed: people, places and education in the Sudan Oxford; New York:
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1992.
Beckles, Hilary McD.
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness
and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race and in the United
States, 1880-1917 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995
Berger, Iris, Threads
of solidarity: women in South African industry, 1900-1980 Bloomington: Indiana
University Press; London: James Currey, 1992.
Berry, Sara Fathers
Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility and Class Formation in an Extended
Yoruba Community Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
Blackwelder, Julia
Kirk, Styling Jim Crow: African American beauty training during segregation
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2003.
Blassingame, John.
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Rev. and enl.
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Bolles, A. Lynn. We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1996
Bozzoli, Belinda.
Women of Phokeng: consciousness, life strategy, and migrancy in South Africa,
1900-1983 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.
Brand, Dionne No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920s to 1950s Toronto: Women's Press, 1991
Braxton, Joanne M.
Black Women Writing Autobiography: A tradition within a Tradition. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1989.
Bristow, Peggy. We're
rooted here and they can't pull us up: essays in African Canadian women's
history Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Brown, Mary Jane, Eradicating this evil: women in the American anti-lynching movement, 1892-1940 New York: Garland, 2000.
Brown, Kathleen M.
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power
in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Bunch-Lyons, Beverly
A. Contested terrain: African American women migrate from the South to Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1900-1950 New York: Routledge, 2002.
Bush, Barbara Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990
Byfield, Judith A.
The bluest hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta
(Nigeria), 1890-1940 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.
Callahan, Nancy The Freedom Quilting Bee Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987
Caraway, Nancie, Segregated
sisterhood: racism and the politics of American feminism Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1991.
Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing
Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1987.
Cash, Floris Loretta
Barnett. African American women and social action: the clubwomen and volunteerism
from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
2001.
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth
Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C. 1910-1940
(Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
Collier-Thomas, Bettye.
Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. xx, 345 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Collier-Thomas, Bettye
and V.P. Franklin, eds. Sisters in Struggle: African American Women and the
Civil Rights-Black Power Movement New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.
Marriage in Maradi: gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-1989
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: J. Currey, 1997.
Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. African women: a modern history Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997
Crawford, Vicki L.
Jacqueline Anne Rouse and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement,
Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965 Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1993
Davis, Michael D.,
Black American women in Olympic track and field: a complete illustrated reference
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1992.
Diedrich, Maria. Love across color lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.
Dodson, Jualynne E.
Engendering church: women, power, and the AME Church Lanham, Md.: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2002. vii, 147 p.; 24 cm.
Donoghue, Eddie. Black
women/white men: the sexual exploitation of female slaves in the Danish West
Indies Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.
Edwards, Laura F.
Gendered strife & confusion: the political culture of reconstruction
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997
Elam, Yitzchak. The
social and sexual roles of Hima women;a study of nomadic cattle breeders
in Nyabushozi County, Ankole, Uganda. Manchester, Eng.: Manchester
University Press, 1973
Epprecht, Marc. 'This
matter of women is getting very bad': gender, development and politics in
colonial Lesotho Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000.
Fairbanks, Evelyn,
The Days of Rondo: A Warm Reminiscence of St. Paul's Thriving Black Community
in the 1930s and 1940s St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990
Fleischner, Jennifer.
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: the remarkable story of the friendship between
a first lady and a former slave New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Fleming, Cynthia Griggs,
Soon we will not cry: the liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Lanham,
Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Forbes, Ella, African American women during the Civil War New York: Garland, 1998.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth.
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Frankel, Noralee,
Freedom's women: Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999.
Geiger, Susan. TANU
women: gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-1965
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: E.A.E.P.; Dar es
Salaam: Mkuki Na Nyota, 1997.
Giddings, Paula. In
search of sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the challenge of the Black sorority
movement New York: Morrow, 1988.
Giddings, Paula. When
and where I enter: The Impact of Black women on race and sex in America.
New York: Morrow Publishers, 1984.
Gordon, Ann D. with
Bettye Collier Thomas, eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997
Gray, Brenda Clegg. Black female domestics during the Depression in New York City, 1930-1940 New York: Garland, 1993.
Green, Venus. Race
on the line: gender, labor, and technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2001.
Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Vintage, 1976.
Hall, Wade H. Passing for Black: the life and careers of Mae Street Kidd Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Hammond, Jenny. Sweeter
than honey: Ethiopian women and revolution: testimonies of Tigrayan women
Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 1990
Haywood, Chanta M.,
Prophesying daughters: Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Hendricks, Wanda A.
Gender, race, and politics in the Midwest: Black club women in Illinois Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1998.
Higginbotham, Evelyn
Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church,
1880-1920 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Hine, Darlene Clark
Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession,
1890-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Hine, Darlene Clark.
Hine sight: Black women and the re-construction of American history Brooklyn,
N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1994. xxxv, 290 p.; 24 cm.
Hine, Darlene Clark. Speak truth to power: Black professional class in United States history Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1996.
Hodes, Martha Elizabeth.
White women, black men: illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1997.
Hoehler-Fatton, Cynthia
Heyden. Women of fire and spirit: history, faith, and gender in Roho religion
in western Kenya New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hudson, Lynn M. The
making of "Mammy Pleasant": a Black entrepreneur in nineteenth-century San
Francisco Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Hunter, Tera. To ‘Joy
My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Jewell, K. Sue. From
Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of U.S.
Social Policy New York: Routledge, 1993.
Johnson, Nellie Stone, Nellie Stone Johnson: the life of an activist Saint Paul, Minn.: Ruminator Books, 1999.
Jones, Jacqueline.
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery
to Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Jones, Adrienne Lash. Jane Edna Hunter: a case study of Black leadership, 1910-1950 Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990
King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth Century America Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995
Kingsolver, Barbara. Holding the Line: Women an the Grat Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1989
Landry, Bart. Black working wives: pioneers of the American family revolution Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
Lebsock, Suzanne The
Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984
Lee, Chana Kai, For freedom's sake: the life of Fannie Lou Hamer Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Lemke-Santangelo,
Gretchen. Abiding courage: African American migrant women and the East Bay
community Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Lowry, Beverly. Her
dream of dreams: the rise and triumph of Madam C.J. Walker New York: Alfred
A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2003
Mack, Kibibi Voloria
C. Parlor ladies and ebony drudges: African American women, class, and work
in a South Carolina community Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
Martinez-Alier, Verena
Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth Century Cuba: A Study of Racial
Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society London: Cambridge University
Press, 1974
Mayer, Jane and Jill Abramson, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1994.
Minkoff, Debra C.,
Organizing for equality: the evolution of women's and racial-ethnic organizations
in America, 1955-1985 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Morrisey, Marietta
Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1989
Morton, Patricia. Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women New York: Praeger, 1991
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia,
Afro-American women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Noble, Jeanne L. Beautiful,
Also, Are the Souls of my Black Sisters: A History of Black Women in America.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978
Olson, Lynne. Freedom's daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 New York: Scribner, 2001.
Oyewmí, Oyrónke.
The invention of women: making an African sense of Western gender discourses
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Painter, Nell, Sojourner Truth: A life, A Symbol New York: Norton, 1996.
Palmer, Phyllis. Domesticity
and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945.
Women in the Political Economy Series. Temple University Press, 1989.
Putney, Martha S.,
When the nation was in need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps during World
War II Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Ransby, Barbara. Ella
Baker and the Black freedom movement: a radical democratic vision Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Rhodes, Jane, Mary
Ann Shadd Cary: the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1998.
Richards, Yevette.
Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and international labor leader Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty New York: Pantheon, 1997.
Robertson, Claire
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra,
Ghana Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984
Robnett, Belinda,
How long? How long?: African-American women in the struggle for Civil rights
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Rollins, Judith Between Women: Domestics and their Employers, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985
Rooks, Noliwe. Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Sacks, Karen Brodkin.
Caring By the Hour: Women, Work and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Salem, Dorothy C. To better our world: Black women in organized reform, 1890-1920 Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.
Schechter, Patricia
Ann, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American reform, 1880-1930 Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Schmidt, Elizabeth.
Peasants, traders, and wives: Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Harare: Baobab; London: J. Currey, 1992.
Schwalm, Leslie A.
A hard fight for we: women's transition from slavery to freedom in South
Carolina Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Shaw, Stephanie J.
What a woman ought to be and to do: Black professional women workers during
the Jim Crow era Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Sheldon, Kathleen E., Pounders of grain: a history of women, work, and politics in Mozambique Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.
Smith, J. Clay. Rebels in law: voices in history of Black women lawyers Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Smith, Susan Lynn,
Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in
America, 1890-1950 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Snyder, Margaret C.,
African women and development: a history Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University
Press; London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1995.
Socolow, Susan Migden, The women of colonial Latin America Cambridge, U.K.: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Sokoloff, Natalie
J. Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation
by Race and Gender, 1960-1980 New York: Routledge, 1992
Solinger, Ricki, ed. Wake Up, Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade New York: Routledge, 1992.
Springer, Kimberly,
ed. Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s
Activism New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Sterling, Dorothy. We are your sisters: black women in the nineteenth century New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, 1984.
Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Strane, Susan. A whole-souled woman: Prudence Crandall and the education of Black women New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
Streitmatter, Rodger.
Raising her voice: African-American women journalists who changed history
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Tanner, Jo A. Dusky maidens /the odyssey of the early black dramatic actress Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Tate, Gayle T. Unknown
tongues: Black women's political activism in the Antebellum era, 1830-1860
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003.
Taylor, Ula Y. The
veiled Garvey: the life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.
African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920 Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1998.
Wallace, Phyllis A. Black Women in the Labor Force Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980.
Weiner, Marli F. Mistresses
and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1998.
Weisenfeld, Judith.
African American women and Christian activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
White, E. Frances.
Sierra Leone's settler women traders: women on the Afro-European frontier
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987.
White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n’t I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South New York: Norton, 1985.
White, Deborah Gray. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 New York: Norton, 1999.
Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas women: 150 years of trial and triumph Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Witt, Doris. Black hunger: food and the politics of U.S. identity New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Wolcott, Victoria
W. Remaking respectability: African American women in interwar Detroit Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Wood, Betty. Women’s
Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1995
Yee, Shirley J., Black women abolitionists: a study in activism, 1828-1860 Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992
Autobiography and Historical Fiction (Second Review)
Albert, Octavia V.
Rogers, The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves 1890;
reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Anderson, Ruth Bluford.
From Mother’s Aid Child to University Professor The Autobiography of an American
Black Woman. The University of Iowa School of Social Work Social Development
Issues, June 1985.
Andrews, William L.
Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth
Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings New York: Bantam, 1975
Angelou, Maya. Singin’ and Swingin’ and getting’ merry like Christmas New York: Random House, 1976
Angelou, Maya. Gather Together in My Name New York: Bantam, 1975
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. 1962; reprint: Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1987
Bell-Scott, Patricia
and Juanita Johnson-Bailey (eds). Flat-Footed Truths Telling Black
Women’s Lives. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Bickley, Ancella R.
and Lynda Ann Ewen, eds. Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story
of a Black Appalachian Woman Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.
Billington, Ray Allen,
ed. The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A young black woman’s reactions to
the white world of the Civil War era 1953; reprint: New York: Norton, 1981
Brown, Cynthia Stokes,
ed. Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement; Ready From Within:
A First Person Narrative Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990
Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story New York: Pantheon, 1992
Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Hornes: An American Family New York: Plume, 1986.
Bundles, A’Lelia Perry. Madam C.J. Walker, Entrepreneur New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991
Chase-Riboud, Barbara. Sally Hemings: A Novel New York: Viking, 1979
Childress, Alice. Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life 1956; reprint: Boston: Beacon, 1986
Chishoim, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. New York: Avon Books, 1970.
Collected Black Women’s
Narratives: N. Prince, L. Picquet, B. Veney, S.K. Taylor reprint: New York:
Oxford and the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers,
1988
Comer, James P. Maggie’s American Dream The Life and Times of A Black Family. New York: Nal Books, 1988.
Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1974.
Delany, Sarah Louise,
Having our say: the Delany sisters' first 100 years; with Amy Hill Hearth.
New York : Kodansha International, 1993.
Dunham, Katherine. A Touch of Innocence New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1959.
Dunnigan, Alice Allison A Black Woman Experience: From Schoolhouse to White House Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1974.
Duster, Alfreda, ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970
Emecheta, Buchi. Slave Girl New York: Brazillier, 1977
Etter- Lewis, Gwendolyn.
My Soul is My Own Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions.
New York: Routeledge, 1993.
Fields, Mamie Garvin
and Karen Fields. Lemon Swamp and Other Places A Carolina Memoir.
London: The Free Press, 1983.
Fleming, Cynthia Griggs
Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1998
Gabel, Leona C. From
Slavery to the Sorbonne and Beyond: The Life and Writings of Anna J. Cooper
Northampton, MA: Department of History Smith College, 1982
Garrow, David. J.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott tand the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo
Ann Gibson Robinson Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1987
Griffin, Farah Jasmine,
ed. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal
Oak, Maryland and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 New York:
Knopf, 1999
Guffy, Ossie.
Ossie The Autobiography of a Black Woman. Told to Caryl Ledner.
New York: Bantam Books, 1971.
Height, Dorothy I., Open wide the freedom gates: a memoir New York: Public ffairs, 2003.
Hill, Pauline Anderson
Simmons with Sherrilyn Johnson Jordan. Too Young to Be Old: Bertha Pitts-Campbell;
a founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated Seattle: WA: Peanut
Butter Publishing, 1981.
Holiday, Billie with
William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues: The searing autobiography of an American
Musical Legend 1956; reprint: New York: Penguin, 1984
Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, From the Mississippi Delta: a memoir New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997
Hudson, Winson, Mississippi Harmony: memoirs of a freedom fighter New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Hull, Gloria T. (ed.) Gives Us Each Day The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. New York: W.W Norton and Company, 1984.
Humez, Jean McMahon.
(ed.) Gifts of Power The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker
Eldress. Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press,
1981.
Humez, Jean McMahon,
Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker
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