Too Heavy A Load: Black Women In Defense Of Themselves 1894-1994"Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, Emerge Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also movingly illuminates black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable pull of the agendas of white women and black men. Finally, it tells the larger and lamentable story of how Americans began this century measuring racial progress by the status of black women but gradually came to focus on the status of black men-the masculinization of America's racial consciousness. Writing with the same magisterial eye for historical detail as in her best-selling Ar'n't I a Woman, Deborah Gray White has given us a moving and definitive history of struggle and freedom. "Splendid . . . a broad and sweeping history that becomes an intensely personal experience for the reader. . . . An inspiring showcase of scholarship and sistership." - Nell Irvin Painter, Raleigh News & Observer |
Contents
Chapter | 21 |
Chapter | 56 |
Chapter Three | 87 |
Chapter Four | 110 |
Chapter Five | 142 |
A PHILLIP RANDOLPH AND HELENA WILSON WITH | 164 |
Members of thE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS | 170 |
Chapter | 176 |
THE MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE YOUTH SECTION OF ST LOUIS | 185 |
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 Deborah Gray White No preview available - 1999 |
Too Heavy A Load: Black Women In Defense Of Themselves 1894-1994 Deborah Gray White No preview available - 1999 |
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