Full name: Black Women in White America: A Documentary History

Author: Gerda Lerner Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Feminism, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679743149 0679743146

In this documentary history, black women themselves tell not only what it's like to be oppressed --as blacks and as women--but also how they have managed to survive. Here are stories of women who built a school "on a garbage dump"; of the little-known but vitally important networks of women's organizations dedicated to self-help and the struggle for human dignity; of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, beatings and lynchings. The documents, many of them previously unpublished and long hidden in archives across the country, fill in important chapters in the history of America. "Dr. Lerner gives us material which can change images that whites have had of blacks, and possibly even those which we, as blacks, have of ourselves." -Maya Angelou, 'Life' Similar books: When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings The Invisible Line by Daniel J. Sharfstein Women of the Republic by Linda K. Kerber The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler America's Women by Gail Collins Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz A Woman's View by Jeanine Basinger For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich Pink Think by Lynn Peril The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys Where the Girls Are by Susan J. Douglas A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle The Crone by Barbara G. Walker Women of Ideas by Dale Spender The Male Body by Susan Bordo