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The Firebrand and the First Lady

Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By: Patricia Bell-Scott

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The Firebrand and the First Lady

Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By: Patricia Bell-Scott

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America. “A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

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The Firebrand and the First Lady

Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By: Patricia Bell-Scott

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Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

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Flat-Footed Truths

Telling Black Women's Lives

By: Patricia Bell-Scott,Juanita Johnson-Bailey

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Flat-Footed Truths

Telling Black Women's Lives

By: Patricia Bell-Scott,Juanita Johnson-Bailey

A new and exciting collection from Patricia Bell-Scott, the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie. To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth. This revealing and inspiring anthology brings together twenty-seven creative spirits who through essays, interviews, poetry, and photographic images tell black women's lives. In the opening section that discusses the risks involved in sharing your life with others, Sapphire tells us about the challenges in recording her experiences when there has never been any validation that her life was important. The next section chronicles the adventure in claiming the lives of those who have been lost or neglected, such as Alice Walker's search for the real story of Zora Neale Hurston. The third part, which affirms lives of resistance, includes Audre Lorde's acclaimed essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." The final chapter, focusing on transformed lives, presents an insightful interview with Sonia Sanchez. This wonderful collection, featuring such writers as bell hooks, Barbara Smith, Marcia Ann Gillespie, and Pearl Cleage, is testimony to a flourishing literary tradition, filled with daring women, that will inspire others to tell their own stories.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466857633

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The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

By: John Solomos,Patricia Hill Collins

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The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

By: John Solomos,Patricia Hill Collins

What is the state of Race and Ethnic Studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues? The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies is a vital resource for researchers and students with a panoramic, critical survey of the field. A rigorous, focused examination of the central questions in the field today, the text examines: The roots of the field of race and ethnic studiesThe distinction between race and ethnicity Methodological issues facing researchersThe relationship between the field and more established disciplinesIntersections between race and ethnicity and questions sexuality, gender, nation and social transformationThe challenge of multiculturalismRace, ethnicity and globalizationRace and the familyRace and educationRace and religionIssues for the 21st Century

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SAGE Publications

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0761942203

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Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

By: Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker

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Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

By: Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker

Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of `race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.

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Routledge

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113508811X

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Disfigured Images

The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women

By: Patricia Morton

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Disfigured Images

The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women

By: Patricia Morton

Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a large body of scholarly literature was generated that presented little fact and much fiction about black women's history. The book's ten chapters take long and lingering looks at the black woman's prefabricated past. Contemporary revisionist studies with their goals of discovering and articulating the real nature of the slave woman's experience and role are thoroughly examined in the conclusion. Disfigured Images complements current work by recognizing in its findings a long-needed refutation of a caricatured, mythical version of black women's history. Morton's introduction presents an overview of her subject emphasizing the mythical, ingrained nature of the black woman's image in historiography as a natural and permanent slave. The succeeding chapters use historical and social science works as primary sources to explore such issues as the foundations of sexism-racism, the writing of W.E.B. DuBois, twentieth century notions of black women, current black and women's studies, new and old images of motherhood, and more. The conclusion investigates how and why recent American historiographical scholarship has banished the old myths by presenting a more accurate history of black women. This keenly perceptive and original study should find an influential place in both women's studies and black studies programs as well as in American history, American literature, and sociology departments. With its unusually complete panorama of the period covered it would be a unique and valuable addition to courses such as slavery, the American South, women in (North) American history, Afro-American history, race and sex in American literature and discourse, and the sociology of race.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313064628

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Fighting Words

Black Women and the Search for Justice

By: Patricia Hill Collins

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Fighting Words

Black Women and the Search for Justice

By: Patricia Hill Collins

A professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating outside the mainstream emphasize sociological themes based on assumptions different than those commonly accepted. Original. UP.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816623775

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Citizenship, Activism and the City

The Invisible and the Impossible

By: Patricia Burke Wood

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Citizenship, Activism and the City

The Invisible and the Impossible

By: Patricia Burke Wood

This book examines post-crisis protest as a global yet intensely local movement. It reframes the theorization of both protest and of the city, in local and global contexts. It bridges four key ideas: human rights discourse and citizenship practice; political economy and social geography approaches to understandings of the city; "post-political" literature and the history of politics and protest; and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of politics. This book adopts a unique approach to provide new theoretical insights and challenges to post political thinking.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351719297

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Black Feminist Thought

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By: Patricia Hill Collins

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Black Feminist Thought

Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By: Patricia Hill Collins

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

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Routledge

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1135960135

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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

By: Patricia Hill Collins

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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

By: Patricia Hill Collins

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.

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Duke University Press

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1478007095

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Black Sexual Politics

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

By: Patricia Hill Collins

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Black Sexual Politics

African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

By: Patricia Hill Collins

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.

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Flat-Footed Truths

Telling Black Women's Lives

By: Patricia Bell-Scott,Juanita Johnson-Bailey

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Telling Black Women's Lives

By: Patricia Bell-Scott,Juanita Johnson-Bailey

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Women's Studies, 1999-2000

By: Patricia Ojea,Barbara Quigley

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Women's Studies, 1999-2000

By: Patricia Ojea,Barbara Quigley

[TofC cont.] -- Political science, law, and criminal justice, public policy and administration: Future of Roe v. Wade / C. Sanger, S.T. Poppema, and F. Kissling -- Business, economics, labor, and employment -- Sociology and anthropology: Gay families come out / B. Kantrowitz. [This book first] introduces several historic roles of women in American society, and variations of American feminism. At the heart of these roles is the notion that women's perspectives, interpretations, and roles are defined by women. [It then] examines females' attitudes, roles, and outcomes in education, as well as the speculation about differences in the cognitive abilities of adults, and employment issues for women [and also] health care issues and hospital policies ... [The book next] covers feminine religious roles ... politics, law, and issues related to women in the military, sexual harassment, and pregnancy in the workplace. [The book finally] examines women and employment historically [and] issues of the 1990s, including gay families, domestic violence, abortion, and the Million Woman March.-To the reader.

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0073031976

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Book's by Patricia Bell-Scott

The Firebrand and the First Lady

The Firebrand and the First Lady

The Firebrand and the First Lady

The Firebrand and the First Lady

Flat-Footed Truths

Flat-Footed Truths

The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies

Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

Disfigured Images

Disfigured Images

Fighting Words

Fighting Words

Citizenship, Activism and the City

Citizenship, Activism and the City

Black Feminist Thought

Black Feminist Thought

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Black Sexual Politics

Black Sexual Politics

Flat-Footed Truths

Flat-Footed Truths

Women's Studies, 1999-2000

Women's Studies, 1999-2000

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