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[1981] | South End Press | 205 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.42 HOOKS |
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2019 | OverDrive | 2 | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive | 2 | Taylor and Francis | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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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 Back womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this...
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814 GAY
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814 GAY
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814 GAY
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2014. | First edition. | Harper Perennial | xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 814 GAY Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 814 GAY Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 814 GAY |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink-all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers...
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Westover - Adult Large Type 1 available
LT 305.48896 BERNA
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2019. | Large print. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available
Westover - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 305.48896 BERNA |
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"An extraordinary exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way. ... 'I am black-and brown, too,' writes Emily Bernard. 'Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell.' These twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays explore, up close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities, of growing up black in the South with a family...
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2019. | Bloomsbury (Firm) | xviii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.48 HILL |
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For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era's prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement--physical, social, intellectual--the threat of being...
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[2015] | The University of North Carolina Press | xi, 313 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Adult Biography 1 available B KENNEDY F |
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Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. Traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist. Rather than simply reacting to the predominantly white feminist movement, Kennedy brought the lessons of Black Power to white feminism and built bridges...
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[2019] | Second edition ; with a new preface by the author. | The University of North Carolina Press | xxviii, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 324 GILMO 209 2nd ed. |
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"This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gilmore argues that while the ideology of white supremacy reordered Jim Crow...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
629.4072 SHETT
Central - Adult Nonfiction 7 available
629.4072 SHETT
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
629.4072 SHETT
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 629.4072 SHETT Central - Adult Nonfiction 7 available 629.4072 SHETT Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 629.4072 SHETT |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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305.42 KENDA
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305.42 KENDA
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[2020] | Viking | xviii, 267 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 5 available 305.42 KENDA Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.42 KENDA |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"--
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[2001] | First edition. | W.W. Norton | xxv, 390 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.362 JACOB |
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester, where she became an abolition activist; and her struggle for freedom, hard won in 1852. This text is a reprint of the 1861 first edition, with explanatory annotations and an introduction by Nellie Y....
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[1995] | Beacon Press | xxiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B WELLS I |
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The diaries of Wells, a noted journalist and activist, reveal nineteenth- and twentieth-century black life in a major southern city.
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1998. | Penguin Books | xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B Tru |
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The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, the nineteenth-century African-American woman who moved from slave labor to preaching and promoting abolition and women's rights; also includes a collection of writings and anecdotes dating from Truth's lifetime.
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[2019] | First US edition. | HarperCollins Publishers | xxxvii, 1,000 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 808.89896 NEWDA |
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Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby's Daughters of Africa was published to international acclaim and hailed as "an extraordinary body of achievement . . . a vital document of lost history" (Sunday Times) and "the ultimate reference guide" (Washington Post). New Daughters of Africa continues that tradition for a new generation. This magnificent follow-up to the original landmark anthology brings together fresh and vibrant voices that have emerged...
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Central - Adult Biography 1 available
B WALKER C
Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available
B WALKER C
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[2002] | Washington Square Press | 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B WALKER C Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available B WALKER C |
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Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues. photo insert.
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c2017. | Penguin Books | xl, 613 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 810.8 PORTA |
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"A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this...
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2019. | The New Press | 206 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 371.8299 MORRI |
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"Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues reimagines what education might look like if schools placed the thriving of Black and Brown girls at their center. Morris brings together research and real life in this chorus of interviews, case studies, and the testimonies of remarkable people who work successfully with girls of color. The result is this radiant manifesto -- a guide to moving away from punishment, trauma, and discrimination and toward safety, justice,...
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301.092 COTTO
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
301.092 COTTO
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[2019] | New Press | xi, 244 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 301.092 COTTO Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 301.092 COTTO |
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2018 | OverDrive | The New Press | English | Available Online
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One of Book Riot's "The Best Books We Read in October 2018"
"To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth."
—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of "America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)
"To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth."
—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of "America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media,
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[1969] | Prentice-Hall | xxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 812 HANSBER NEMIR |
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[2019] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xxi, 441 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm | English |
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"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes...
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2006. | University of Pennsylvania Press | 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.714 FAULK |
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B DAVIS F
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B DAVIS F
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2019. | First United States edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B DAVIS F Westover - Adult Biography 1 available B DAVIS F |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.