Dark continent of our bodies : black feminism and the politics of respectability /

Dark continent of our bodies : black feminism and the politics of respectability / E. Frances White.

Takes a look at black feminism--its roots, its role, and its implications. From Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century racism to black nationalism and the Nation of Islam, from Baptist women's groups to James Baldwin; White takes on one institution after another as she re-centers the role of bla...

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Main Author: White, E. Frances.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.
Series:Mapping racisms.
Subjects:
Feminism > United States > History.
Feminists > United States.
African American women.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Black nationalism > United States.
Feminism.
Feminists.
United States > Race relations.

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Call Number: HQ1426 .W465 2001
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