Opening Minds, Improving Live: Education And Women's Empowerment In Honduras

Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "open" her mind. Living ...

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dom...

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Africana Womanism - Reclaiming Ourselves

AFRICANA WOMANISM: RECLAIMING OURSELVES poses new challenges for the feminist movement. In fact, in the words of Delores P. Aldridge, it i...

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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent...

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African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA,1905-1945

The middle class black women who people Judith Weisenfeld’s history were committed both to social action and to institutional expressio...

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African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival,and Citizenship

“Brilliant. Alexander helps us to understand the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, migration, and identity as they intersect with c...

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Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide r...

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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activismin America, 1890-1950

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect...

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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the...

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Glorying in Tribulation: The Life Work of Sojourner Truth

In Glorying in Tribulation, Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth's character. Much of the information regarding this o...

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Madame C. J. Walker (Life Skills Biographies)

A biography of the African American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and...

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Saint Bakhita of Sudan : Forever Free

“Bakhita,” which means “fortunate,” was sarcastically bestowed upon this young child when she was kidnapped into slavery. After being ta...

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The Black Woman: An Anthology

A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first publishe...

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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This intere...

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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons

Our Auntie Rosa  is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero—"the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus....

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The Power Playbook: Rules for Independence, Money and Success

The Power Playbook is the empowering guide to forging professional success, establishing financial independence, and finding balance for a...

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Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women's History

Stories from the Amazing journey of African American Women "Whether read as history or practical inspiration, the stories of bravery...

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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out

Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen, a compilation of texts, testi...

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Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions

From Compton to Cairo and Bahia to Brixton, black women have been disproportionally affected by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, discrim...

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Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography

Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans...

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