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• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

  Womanist Prose

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  "Bestselling novelist ALICE WALKER is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Her novel The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Feminist Thought

  Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

  Hill Collins, Patricia,

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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, persistence, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sensuous Knowledge

  a Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

  Salami, Minna,

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  "The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Black Girls Are Activists

  a Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

  Moore, EbonyJanice,

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  "All The Black Girls Are Activists is a love letter to Black girls and Black women, asking and attempting to offer some answers to “Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” by naming Black women’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ain't I a Woman

  Black Women and Feminism

  hooks, bell, 1952-2021

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Women in My Family Sing

  Women Write the World--essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom

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  "Sixty-nine authors ― African American, Asian American, Chicana, Native American, Cameroonian, South African, Korean, LGBTQI ― lend their voices to broaden cross-cultural understanding and to build bridges to each other’s histories and daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies

  Theories and Transgressions

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  "Jillian Ford is an associate professor of social studies education at Kennesaw State University. Nathalia E. Jaramillo is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Immigration and the Challenge of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feminist Theory

  From Margin to Center

  hooks, bell, 1952-2021

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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." Today, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Bound Up Together

  the Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900

  Jones, Martha S.

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  "This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fighting Chance

  the Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America

  Dudden, Faye E.

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  "The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two…Read moreRead more of this annotation