Title The Black feminist reader / edited by Joy James and Tracey Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Published Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 2000

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Description xiv,302 pages ; 23 cm Contents I. Literary Theory -- 1. The Race for Theory / Barbara Christian -- 2. Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature / Toni Morrison -- 3. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book / Hortense J. Spillers -- 4. A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism / Michael Awkward -- 5. Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the "Demonic Ground" of Caliban's "Woman" / Sylvia Wynter -- II. Social and Political Theory -- 6. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory / bell hooks -- 7. Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation / Angela Y. Davis -- 8. The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- 9. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics / Kimberle Crenshaw -- 10. Radicalizing Feminism / Joy James -- Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement (1977) African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991) -- Open Letter from Assata Shakur (1998) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. African American women in literature. English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries. Women, Black, in literature. Author James, Joy, 1958- Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. LC no. 99051385 ISBN 0631210075 paperback 0631210067

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