Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994

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The work Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994

Title remainder

Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Gray White

Title variation

Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994

Creator

• White, Deborah G., (Deborah Gray), 1949-

Author

• White, Deborah G., (Deborah Gray), 1949-

Subject

• African American women -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
• African American women -- Social conditions
• African American women -- Social conditions
• 1900-1999
• African American women -- Societies and clubs | History -- 20th century
• History
• African American women -- Societies and clubs
• African American women -- Civil rights

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Too Heavy a Load explores this century's rich history of black women defending, defining, and explaining themselves. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, it also brings to light and celebrates twentieth-century African American women's unlauded support for women's rights, civil rights, and civil liberties. Too Heavy a Load also takes us beyond the reach of history in its moving and fascinating illumination of 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.48/896073/006

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.86

LC item number

.W43875 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography