Title Stepping forward : Black women in Africa and the Americas / edited by Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, Earline Rae Ferguson

Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2002]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 331 pages) : maps Contents British colonial policy toward education and the roots of gender inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896-1961 / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley -- Agency and constructions of professional identity : African American women educators in the rural south / Valinda W. Littlefield -- Search for Anna Erskine : African American women in nineteenth-century Liberia / Nemata Blyden -- Image and representation : black women in historical accounts of colonial Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd -- Helping ourselves : black women and grassroots activism in segregated South Africa, 1922-1952 / Catherine Higgs -- African American clubwomen and the Indianapolis NAACCP, 1912-1914 / Earline Rae Ferguson -- Witchcraft, women, and taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930-1963 / Sean Redding -- "Mwen na rien, Msieu" : Jamaica Kincaid and the problem of a creole gnosis / Rhonda Cobham -- No place to call home : refugee and internally displaced women in Kenya / Cassadra R. Veney -- "Sisters and mothers are called to the city" : African American women and an even greater migration / Leslie Brown -- Mai Chaza and the politics of motherhood in colonial Zimbabwe / Barbara A. Moss -- Standing their ground : black women's sacred daily life / Fayth M. Parks -- Gender and political struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 / Cora A. Presley -- "Lady folk is a doer" : women and the civil rights movemet in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby -- Strategies for survival by Luo female artists in the rural environment in Kenya / Patricia Achieng Opondo -- Wild and holy women in the poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Owning what we know : racial controversies in South African feminism, 1991-1998 / Teresa Barnes -- Decolonizing culture : the media, black women, and law / Deseriee Kennedy Summary Annotation Presents the edited proceedings of a conference held at the University of Tennessee in September 1999 at which academics from South Africa, Jamaica, and the US compare the experiences of 19th- and 20th-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities. The volume's 18 contributions range from the theme of witchcraft and taxes in the Transkei, South Africa to women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Papers from a conference held at the University of Tennessee from September 15-18, 1999, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Tennessee Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses Women, Black -- Africa -- History -- Congresses Women, Black -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses African American women -- History -- Congresses African American women -- Social conditions -- Congresses Women, Black -- Jamaica -- History -- Congresses Women, Black -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- Congresses African American women African American women -- Social conditions Women, Black Women, Black -- Social conditions Kongress Soziale Situation Schwarze Frau Noires -- Conditions sociales -- Études transculturelles -- Congrès. Noires -- Afrique -- Histoire -- Congrès. Noires -- Afrique -- Conditions sociales -- Congrès. Noires américaines -- Histoire -- Congrès. Noires américaines -- Conditions sociales -- Congrès. Noires -- Jamaïque -- Histoire -- Congrès. Noires -- Jamaïque -- Conditions sociales -- Congrès. Africa Jamaica Afrika Amerika Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Knoxville (Tenn., 1999) Form Electronic book Author Higgs, Catherine, editor Moss, Barbara A., editor Ferguson, Earline Rae, 1946- editor. ISBN 0821440993 9780821440995

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