Sister Citizen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sister Citizen write by Melissa V. Harris-Perry. This book was released on 2011-09-20. Sister Citizen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div
Searching for Sarah Rector
Searching for Sarah Rector - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Sarah Rector write by Tonya Bolden. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Searching for Sarah Rector available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The incredible and little-known story of Sarah Rector, once the wealthiest Black woman in America, from Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Tonya Bolden Searching for Sarah Rector brings to light the intriguing mystery of Sarah Rector, who was born into an impoverished family in 1902 in Indian Territory and later was famously hailed by the Chicago Defender as “the wealthiest colored girl in the world.” Author Tonya Bolden sets Rector’s rags-to-riches tale against the backdrop of American history, including the creation of Indian Territory; the making of Oklahoma, with its Black towns and boomtowns; and the wild behavior of many greedy and corrupt adults. At the age of eleven, Sarah was a very rich young girl. Even so, she was powerless . . . helpless in the whirlwind of drama—and danger—that swirled around her. Then one day word came that she had disappeared. This is her story, and the story of other children like her, filled with ups and downs, bizarre goings-on, and a heap of crimes. Out of a trove of primary documents, including court and census records, as well as interviews with family members, Bolden painstakingly pieces together the events of Sarah’s life.
Black Women in White America
Black Women in White America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women in White America write by Gerda Lerner. This book was released on 1973. Black Women in White America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past.
The Sisters Are Alright
The Sisters Are Alright - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sisters Are Alright write by Tamara Winfrey Harris. This book was released on 2015-07-06. The Sisters Are Alright available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life write by Bert James Loewenberg. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
