All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave : Black women's studies

This ground-breaking collection provides hours of enjoyment for the general reader and a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women; political theory, literary essays on major writers, guidelines for consciousness-raising about racism, and surveys of black women's contributions to the blues. But Some of Us Are Brave......Page 3 Table of Contents......Page 9 WOMEN......Page 13 Foreword......Page 15 Introduction......Page 17 Visions and Recommendations......Page 33 Section One: Searching For Sisterhood: Black Feminism......Page 37 1. A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood......Page 39 2. A Black Feminist Statement......Page 47 3. Selected Bibliography on Black Feminism......Page 57 Section Two: Roadblocks and Bridges: Confronting Racism......Page 69 4. One Child of One's Own: A Meaningful Digression Within the Work(s) - An Excerpt......Page 71 5. Racism - A White Issue......Page 79 6. Racism and Women's Studies......Page 82 7. Face-to-Face, Day-to-Day-Racism CR......Page 86 Section Three: Dispelling the Myths: Black Women and the Social Sciences......Page 93 8. Studying Slavery: Some Literary and Pedagogical Considerations on the Black Female Slave......Page 95 9. Debunking Sapphire: Toward a Non-Racist and Non-Sexist Social Science......Page 119 10. Two Representative Issues in Contemporary Sociological Work on Black Women......Page 127 Section Four: Creative Survival: Preserving Body, Mind, and Spirit......Page 135 11. Black Women's Health: Notes for a Course......Page 137 12. Three's a Crowd: The Dilemma of the Black Woman in Higher Education......Page 149 13. Slave Codes and Liner Notes......Page 163 14. Black Women and the Church......Page 175 Section Five: "Necessary Bread": Black Women's Literature......Page 189 15. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism......Page 191 16. "This Infinity of Conscious Pain": Zora Neale Hurston and the Black Female Literary Tradition......Page 210 17. Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective......Page 223 18. Black-Eyed Blues Connections: Teaching Black Women......Page 230 19. Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers......Page 242 Section Six: Bibliographies and Bibliographic Essays......Page 253 20. Afro-American Women, 1800-1910: Excerpts from a Working Bibliography......Page 255 21. Afro-American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: A Guide to Research and Bio-Bibliographies of the Poets......Page 279 22. On the Novels Written by Selected Black American Women: A Bibliographical Essay......Page 295 23. Black Women Playwrights from Grimké to Shange: Selected Synopses of Their Works......Page 314 24. American Black Women Composers: A Selected Annotated Bibliography......Page 331 25. A Listing of Non-Print Materials on Black Women......Page 341 Additional References and Resources......Page 361 Section Seven: Doing the Work: Selected Course Syllabi......Page 369 General / Social / Interdisciplinary......Page 371 Literature......Page 394 About the Contributors......Page 413 Acknowledgments......Page 417 Index......Page 421 Reprints from the Feminist Press......Page 436 Other Titles from The Feminist Press......Page 437 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.