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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

White, Deborah Gray

Paperback

Black American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 039331992X
ISBN13: 9780393319927
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Nov 1 1999
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.21
Language: English

Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also movingly illuminates 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. Writing with the same magisterial eye for historical detail as in her best-selling Ar'n't I a Woman, Deborah Gray White has given us a moving and definitive history of struggle and freedom.

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