Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner - ISBN: 9780679743149
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Black women’s voices rise from America’s past, resilience revealed.

Black Women in White America

A Documentary History

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  • Paperback

    672 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 1993

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Summary

Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing.

In this “stunning collection of documents” (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679743149
ISBN-10:0679743146
Author:Gerda Lerner
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Vintage Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:672
Release Date:5 January 1993
Weight:556g
Dimensions:203mm x 134mm x 34mm
Series:Vintage
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Critics Review

“Gerda Lerner has collected…material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves.”–Maya Angelou

“Gerda Lerner has collected…material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves.”–Maya Angelou

About The Author

Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) was a prominent historian, activist, educator, writer, and one of the founders of the study of women’s history. She received her PhD in history from Columbia University, and at her first academic post at Sarah Lawrence College, she developed the first graduate program in women’s history. She went on to teach at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she created the first PhD program in women’s history in the United States. Lerner is the editor of Black Women in White America - A Documentary History, and is the author of many publications, including The Creation of Patriarchy and Why History Matters - Life and Thought.

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