Too heavy a load
Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994
1st ed.
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Publication
1999 - W.W. Norton, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL347401M
- ISBN-100393046672
- OCLC Control Number98006518
- OCLC Control Number38748962
- OCLC Control Numbertooheavyloadblac00whit
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98006518
- LibraryThing296693
- Goodreads5509855
Classifications
- DDC305.48/896073/006
- LCCE185.86 .W43875 1999
Description
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.
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