The Rising Song of African American women / Barbara Omolade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omolade, Barbara.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 272 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1994.

Contents:

Part One: Historical Context, Contemporary Meanings. Hearts of Darkness; The Unbroken Circle: A historical study of Black Single Mothers and their families; Lay Down This world; It's a Family Affair: The real lives of Black Single Mothers; Gender in Black

Part Two: Invisible to the Naked Eye: Black Women and the Academy. The Silence and the Song: Toward a Black Woman's History, Through a Language of Her Own; Origins: The roots of Black Feminist Intelligentsia; A Black .Feminist Pedagogy; Invisible to the Naked Eye: A case study of Black women students at the Center for Worker Education; The Lion's Rock Speech

Part III: Praxis and Struggle. Ella's daughters; Black codes and racial dramas: The Central Park Jogger Case; Black Men, Black Women and Tawana Brawley: The shared condition; We speak for the planet; Lamentations.

Notes:

"Cover art: Kip Omolade. Cover Design: Charles b. Hames."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxiii]-xxvi) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0415907608 :

0415907616

OCLC:

29951931