The Woman of Colour - 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 Woman of Colour write by Lyndon J. Dominique. This book was released on 2007-10-24. The Woman of Colour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of a slaveholder, must travel from Jamaica to England, and as a condition of her father’s will either marry her Caucasian first cousin or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them. She gives scathing descriptions of London, Bristol, and the British, as well as progressive critiques of race, racism, and slavery. The narrative follows her life from the heights of her arranged marriage to its swift descent into annulment and destitution, only to culminate in her resurrection as a self-proclaimed “widow” who flouts the conventional marriage plot. The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman’s perspective.
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - 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 Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege write by Kent Anderson Leslie. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. Although legally a slave herself well into her adolescence, Dickson was much favored by her father and lived comfortably in his house, receiving a genteel upbringing and education. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. When the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the will, Dickson became the largest landowner in Hancock County, Georgia, and the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South. Kent Anderson Leslie's portrayal of Dickson is enhanced by a wealth of details about plantation life; the elaborate codes of behavior for men and women, blacks and whites in the South; and the equally complicated circumstances under which racial transgressions were sometimes ignored, tolerated, or even accepted.
Woman of Color
Woman of Color - 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 Woman of Color write by LaTonya Yvette Staubs. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Woman of Color available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Motherhood, sisterhood, style, beauty, loss, resilience"--Cover.
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement - 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 Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement write by Jennifer Nelson. This book was released on 2003-10. Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uncovers the truth behind the ideas, struggles, and eventually success of Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists regarding key feminist issues of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus. Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s through the particular contributions of women of color. She explores the relationship between second-wave feminists, who were concerned with a woman's right to choose, Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were concerned that Black and Puerto Rican women have as many children as possible “for the revolution,” and women of color themselves, who negotiated between them. Contrary to popular belief, Nelson shows that women of color were able to successfully remake the mainstream women's liberation and abortion rights movements by appropriating select aspects of Black Nationalist politics—including addressing sterilization abuse, access to affordable childcare and healthcare, and ways to raise children out of poverty—for feminist discourse.
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics - 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 Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics write by Lynn Fujiwara. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both senior and rising scholars, considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American “settler complicities” and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics provides a deep conceptual intervention into the theoretical underpinnings of Asian American studies; ethnic studies; women’s, gender, and sexual studies; as well as cultural studies in general.
