Spring 1998
Historical background:
Paula Giddings, When and Where I enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, William Morrow and Company, (New York 1984).
Jaqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present, Vintage (New York, 1995)
Barbara Smith ed., Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, (New York 1983)
Autobiography
Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power, Anchor Books (New York, 1992)
Angela Davis, An Autobiography, Random House, (New York, 1974)
Assata Shakur, Assata: an Autobiography, Lawrence Hill and Company (Westport Connecticut, 1987)
Audre Lorde, Zami, a New Spelling of My Name
Critiques and New Directions
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
Angela Davis, Women Race and Class
Bell Hooks, Black Women and Feminism
Feminist theory: from margin to Center
Joy James, Resisting State Violence in US Culture: Anti Racisms, Feminisms and Political Coalitions
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
Anthologies
Toni Morrison, ed., Racing Justice
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Words of Fire: an Anthology of African American Feminist Thought
Adrian Katherine Wing, ed., Critical Race Feminism: a reader,
Also recommended:
Gloria Anzaldua, Haciendo Caras/Making Face/Making Soul
Himani Bannerji, Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and Anti Racism
Himani Bannerji, ed., Returning the Gaze, Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics
Stanlie James and Abena P.A. Busia, eds., Theorizing Black Feminisms: the Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women
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