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An example was Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (1896), by Frederick L. Hoffman, an insurance company statistician. Hoffman predicted that diseases resulting from the immoral nature “of the vast majority of the colored ...
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage.
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s.
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently eject her.
From Ida B. Wells to the first black Presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm; from the anti-lynching movement to the struggle for suffrage and equal protection under the law; Giddings tells the stories of black women who transcended the ...
Earl Swanson would become the next man to catch her eye, as she sat on the top of the R & B charts. It would not be long before the two would ... The idea sounded good to Ruth at the time, but she began to miss being in the lime light.
The Illinois club women also played a primary role in the election of the first black alderman in Chicago. This is their inspiring story.
Looks at the history of African American women in science and includes a collection of interviews with notable black women scientists.
Based on over 200 interviews, this book departs from these conventions in significant ways, and, using a "collective memory" conceptual framework, shows how black women cope with and interpret lives often limited by racial barriers not of ...