Bitter fruit : African American women in World War II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honey, Maureen, Editor.

Contributor:

Honey, Maureen, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Women--20th century--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

African American women--History.

African American women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 p.)

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO, USA University of Missouri Press 19991101

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the participation of African American women in all aspects of home-front activity during World War II, advertisements, recruitment posters, and newsreels portrayed largely white women as army nurses, defense plant workers, concerned mothers, and steadfast wives. This sea of white faces left for posterity images such as Rosie the Riveter, obscuring the contributions that African American women made to the war effort. In Bitter Fruit, Maureen Honey corrects this distorted picture of women's roles in World War II by collecting photos, essays, fiction, and poetry by and about black women from the four leading African American periodicals of the war period: Negro Digest, The Crisis, Opportunity, and Negro Story.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8262-6079-9

OCLC:

70769321