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• Women, Race, & Class

  Davis, Angela Y.

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  Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Girls

  a Black Feminist Anthology

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  Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Assata

  An Autobiography

  Shakur, Assata

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  On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, a k a JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ain't I a Woman

  Black Women and Feminism

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  A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Woman

  An Anthology

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  Originally published amid the generation-defining moments of the Black Power and Feminist movements, The Black Woman was one of the first book to give black American women a platform to voice their fears, hopes, angers and hard-won…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre,

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  The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  Angelou, Maya

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  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Words of Fire

  An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

  Guy-Sheftall, Beverly

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  The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is Beverly Guy-Sheftall's comprehensive collection of writings, in the feminist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

  Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897

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  Harriet Jacobs's 1861 autobiography was the first written narrative by a female slave in America. Using the pseudonym Linda, Jacobs recounts the horrors of her life as a slave and a mother. She documents the physical and sexual abuse she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reading Black, Reading Feminist

  a Critical Anthology

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  A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that explore the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women's writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

  Womanist Prose

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  Walker's collection of early nonfiction serves as the manifesto of a young artist-and an illuminating self-portrait What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Bridge Called My Back

  Writings by Radical Women of Color

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  Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

• The Black Feminist Reader

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  Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feminist Theory

  From Margin to Center

  hooks, bell

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  When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Feminist Thought

  Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

  Collins, Patricia Hill

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  In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women’s ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women’s survival,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zami

  a New Spelling of My Name

  Lorde, Audre

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  Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth.

• When and Where I Enter

  The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

  Giddings, Paula J.

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  Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Giddings's When and Where I Enter is not only an eloquent testament to the unsung contributions of individual women to our nation, but to the collective activism which elevated the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000

  Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000

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  New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation