Out of the Shadows: Origins of Black Feminism in the United States
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Authors
McGrath, Kathleen M.
Issue Date
1992
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
While researching the lives of black women in the United States, I
found that it was often quite difficult to find information about black women.
Books about slavery spoke mostly of the experiences of black men. When
looking in books about the history of women, I found that they meant white
women. This was a reoccurring theme I found doing the researching of the
paper.. While researching and writing this paper I worked in a bookstore. In
this bookstore, we had a large black studies section and also a large women's
studies section. We (staff) often found it difficult to stock books by women
like Angela Davis or bell hooks, two black women authors who wrote with a
feminist perspective. No one knew whether to put the books in the black
studies section or the women's studies section.
These examples help to illustrate the precarious position of black
women in the United States. They and their history often falls in the
shadows of two other marginalized groups, black men and white women.
Description
v, 95 p.
Citation
Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College.
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