Too heavy a load
Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994
by Deborah G. White and Deborah Gray White
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Too Heavy a Load explores this century's rich history of black women defending, defining, and explaining themselves. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, it also brings to light and celebrates twentieth-century African American women's unlauded support for women's rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.
Too Heavy a Load also takes us beyond the reach of history in its moving and fascinating illumination of black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable pull of the agendas of white women and black men.
Finally, it tells the larger and lamentable story of how Americans began this century measuring racial progress by the status of black women, but gradually came to focus on the status of black men - the masculinization of America's racial consciousness.
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Afro-American women, Civil rights, Societies and clubs, African American women, Social conditions, History, Schwarze Frau, Geschichte 1894-1994, Sociale bewegingen, Negers, Vrouwen, Verein, Soziale Situation, Bürgerrecht, Burgerrechten, African americans, civil rights, African americans, societies, etc., African americans, social conditionsTimes
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Too heavy a load: Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994
1999, W.W. Norton
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
November 1998, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-310) and index.
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