An edition of But Some of Us Are Brave (1982)

All the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave

Black women's studies

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An edition of But Some of Us Are Brave (1982)

All the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave

Black women's studies

Second edition.
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Essays study the history and position of Black women in America, discussing such topics as racism, Black feminism, and Black women's literature.

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Pages
413

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Cover of: All the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave
All the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave: Black women's studies
2015, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
in English - Second edition.
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BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE
February 1, 2003, The Feminist Press at CUNY
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
April 1982, Feminist Pr
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Table of Contents

Women -- Alice Walker -- Foreword / -- May Berry
Introduction : the politics of Black women's studies -- Gloria T. Hull, Barbara Smith
Visions : recommendations for the future of Black women's studies --
Searching for sisterhood : Black feminism.
A Black feminist's search for sisterhood -- Michele Wallace
A Black feminist statement -- The Combahee River Collective
Selected bibliography on Black feminism -- Patricia Bell Scott
Roadblocks and bridges : confronting racism.
One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)-- an excerpt -- Alice Walker
Racism-- a White issue -- Ellen Pence
Racism and women's studies -- Barbara Smith
Face-to-face, day-to-day-- racism CR -- Tia Cross, Freada Klein, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith
Dispelling the myths : Black women and the social sciences.
Studying slavery : some literary and pedagogical considerations on the Black female slave -- Erlene Stetson
Debunking Sapphire : toward a non-racist and non-sexist social science -- Patricia Bell Scott
Two representative issues in contemporary sociological work on Black women -- Elizabeth Higginbotham
Creative survival : preserving body, mind, and spirit.
Black women's health : notes for a course -- Beverly Smith
Three's a crowd : the dilemma of the Black woman in higher education -- Constance M. Carroll
Slave codes and liner notes -- Michele Russell
Black women and the church -- Jacquelyn Grant
Necessary bread : Black women's literature.
Toward a Black feminist criticism -- Barbara Smith
"This infinity of conscious pain" : Zora Neale Hurston and the Black female literary tradition -- Lorraine Bethel
Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson : a personal and literary perspective -- Gloria T. Hull
Black-eyed blues connections -- Michele Russell
Teaching Black-eyed Susans : an approach to the study of Black women writers -- Mary Helen Washington
Bibliographies and bibliographic essays.
Afro-American women 1800-1910 : excerpts from a working bibliography -- Jean Fagan Yellin
Afro-American women poets of the nineteenth century : a guide to research and bio-bibliographies of the poets -- Joan R. Sherman
On the novels written by selected Black American women : a bibliographical essay -- Rita B. Dandridge
Black women playwrights from Grimké to Shange : selected synopses of their works -- Jeanne-Marie A. Miller
American Black women composers : a selected annotated bibliography -- Ora Williams, Thelma Williams, Dora Wilson, Ramona Matthewson
A listing of non-print materials on Black women -- Martha H. Brown-- Additional references and resources-- Doing the work : selected course syllabi. General/Social/Interdisciplinary ; Literature-- Afterword /-- Brittney Cooper.

Edition Notes

"For this second edition, updates to the contributors' bios are set in bold italics"--Page 387.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
But some of us are brave, Black women's studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.48/896073
Library of Congress
E185.86 .A4 2015, E185.86

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 413 pages
Number of pages
413

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27210551M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781558618985
ISBN 10
1558618988
ISBN 13
9781558618985, 9781558618992
LCCN
2015033173
OCLC/WorldCat
919316404

Work Description

Winner of the Outstanding Women of Colour Award, and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award. This ground-breaking collection provides a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women, from political theory to literary essays on major writers to work on black women's contributions to the blues. Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials and a map for further research. For course use in: African American studies, feminist thought, lesbian studies, racism and sexism, women's studies.

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