<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African American women — Social conditions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African American women — Social conditions"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chpl/rss/search?query=%22African%20American%20women%20%E2%80%94%20Social%20conditions%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:27:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Ain't I A Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA["A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Back womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf. "-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1390721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1390721</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[hooks, bell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1390721092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Black Women and Feminism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781138821484/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Ones]]></title><description><![CDATA["One of Maya Rupert’s earliest memories was learning how to be inauthentic. That performance—the ability to make white people feel comfortable about race—has brought her everything from safety to success. As the third Black woman in history to run a presidential campaign, she soon realized that there was no room among society’s expectations for our real selves. In The Real Ones, Rupert reveals that for some, inauthenticity is necessary for survival. In this deeply relatable book, Rupert weaves together pop culture and politics, workplace advice and personal stories. She shares the off-camera experiences on the presidential campaign trail in a post-Obama political landscape. She sees what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé fans expect from our biggest stars—one is admired as the authentic girl next door, the other is required to be a queen. She exposes the trap too many face in the workplace, when we are asked to bring our full selves to work—but not too much. Rupert sees a world where success is at the expense of our authenticity, not because of it. The Real Ones offers an entirely fresh take on race—that authenticity is a privilege kept from people of color. When we are constantly confronted with the question, “Who do you think you are?” we cannot begin to ask ourselves “Who am I?” In the end, Rupert upends our understanding of authenticity, so that readers can stop questioning who we are, and finally thrive."  publisher's website]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1693322</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1693322</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rupert, Maya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1693322092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593475973/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shifting]]></title><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1200400</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1200400</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jones, Charisse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1200400092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Double Lives of Black Women in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780060090548/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misbehaving at the Crossroads]]></title><description><![CDATA["The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. In Misbehaving at the Crossroads, Jeffers explores the emotional and historical tensions in Black women’s public lives and her own private life. She charts voyages of Black girlhood to womanhood and the currents buffeting these journeys, including the difficulties of racially gendered oppression, the challenges of documenting Black women’s ancestry; the adultification of Black girls; the irony of Black female respectability politics; the origins of Womanism/Black feminism; and resistance to White supremacy and patriarchy. As Jeffers shows with empathy and wisdom, naming difficult historical truths represents both Blues and transcendence, a crossroads that speaks."  Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1687845</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1687845</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1687845092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays &amp; Writings</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063246638/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Chameleon]]></title><description><![CDATA["Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to--true ones of course--but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. What she encountered was almost always written by white writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins. When she sought myths written by Black authors, they were rooted too far in the past, a continent away. Mouton writes, "The phrases of my mother and grandmother began to seem less colloquial and more tied to stories that had been lost along the way.... Mythmaking isn't a lie. It is our moment to take the privilege of our own creativity to fill in the gaps that colonization has stolen from us. It is us choosing to write the tales that our children pull strength from. It is hijacking history for the ignorance in its closets. This, a truth that must start with the women." Mouton's memoir Black Chameleon is a song of praise and an elegy for Black womanhood. With a poet's gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood as the daughter of a preacher and a harsh but loving mother, living in the world as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger, and finally learning to be a mother to another Black girl in America. Of the moment yet timeless, playful but incendiary, Mouton has staked out new territory in the memoir form"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1658528</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1658528</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mouton, Deborah D. E. E. P.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1658528092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Memory, Womanhood, and Myth</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250827852/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisterhood Heals]]></title><description><![CDATA["Healing through gathering is Dr. Joy's life's work; she founded Therapy for Black Girls, creating a space to make mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and girls. Now, she dives into the wisdom of group therapy to help Black women strengthen and evolve within our sisterhoods. In [this book], Dr. Joy illustrates how concepts from group therapy are relevant to our lives, whether we realize it or not. She demonstrates how our real-life sister circles function in similar ways to the ones formed in group therapy. ... [She] unearths the foundations of our connections, reveals the role of attachment theory in our friendships, offers solutions to rebuild after there has been a rupture in a friendship, and shares strategies for taking care of ourselves after a friendship ends."-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1661642</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1661642</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradford, Joy Harden]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1661642092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Transformative Power of Healing in Community</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593497241/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbound]]></title><description><![CDATA["The founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--the #metoo movement--Tarana Burke debuts a ... memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words ... and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1644116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1644116</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burke, Tarana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1644116092</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250621757/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbound]]></title><description><![CDATA["The founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--the #metoo movement--Tarana Burke debuts a ... memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words ... and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1594565</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1594565</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burke, Tarana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1594565092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250621733/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carefree Black Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA["An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women-from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online." In this collection of essays, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture--writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars--whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay celebrates the strength and fortitude of these Black women, while also examining the many stereotypes and rigid identities that have clung to them. In writing that is both luminous and sharp, expansive and intimate, Blay seeks a path forward to a culture and society in which Black women and their art are appreciated and celebrated"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1642312</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1642312</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blay, Zeba]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1642312092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250231567/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Black Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA["Dear Dope Black Girl, You don't know me, but I know you. I know you because I am you! We are magic, light, and stars in the universe." So begins a letter that Tamara Winfrey Harris received as part of her Letters to Black Girls project, where she asked black women to write honest, open, and inspiring letters of support to young black girls aged thirteen to twenty-one. Her call went viral, resulting in a hundred personal letters from black women around the globe that cover topics such as identity, self-love, parents, violence, grief, mental health, sex, and sexuality. In Dear Black Girl, Winfrey Harris organizes a selection of these letters, providing "a balm for the wounds of anti-black-girlness" and modeling how black women can nurture future generations. Each chapter ends with a prompt encouraging girls to write a letter to themselves, teaching the art of self-love and self-nurturing. Winfrey Harris's The Sisters Are Alright explores how black women must often fight and stumble their way into alrightness after adulthood. Dear Black Girl continues this work by delivering pro-black, feminist, LGBTQ+ positive, and body positive messages for black women-to-be--and for the girl who still lives inside every black woman who still needs reminding sometimes that she is alright]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1654862</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1654862</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Winfrey Harris, Tamara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1654862092</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781523092307/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Northwestern University clinical psychologist challenges common cultural misconceptions to reveal the real-world systemic abuse, health traumas, and abandonment that disempower today's Black women and force them to hide behind masks of strength]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1591030</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1591030</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burnett-Zeigler, Inger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1591030092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Emotional Lives of Black Women</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062959829/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbound]]></title><description><![CDATA["The founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--the #metoo movement--Tarana Burke debuts a ... memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words ... and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1643566</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1643566</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burke, Tarana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1643566092</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250818188/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Widow]]></title><description><![CDATA["Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. ("New widow lifestyle." Sounds like something you'd find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself."]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1547838</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1547838</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Streeter, Leslie Gray]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1547838092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books With Words Like &quot;journey&quot; in the Title</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316490733/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era's prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement--physical, social, intellectual--the threat of being bound was real, constant, and lethal. From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honors their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1576381</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1576381</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hill, DaMaris B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1576381092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Incarceration of African American Women From Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781635574616/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hood Feminism]]></title><description><![CDATA["A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549996</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549996</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kendall, Mikki]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1549996092</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Notes From the Women That A Movement Forgot</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593166116/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hood Feminism]]></title><description><![CDATA["A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549874</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549874</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kendall, Mikki]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1549874092</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Notes From the Women That A Movement Forgot</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525560555/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hood Feminism]]></title><description><![CDATA["A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549434</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1549434</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kendall, Mikki]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1549434092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes From the Women That A Movement Forgot</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525560548/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Will Be My Undoing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”-to live as, to exist as-a black woman today?]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1462833</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1462833</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerkins, Morgan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1462833092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062666154/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How We Get Free]]></title><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1478831</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1478831</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1478831092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781608468553/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reimagining Equality]]></title><description><![CDATA[As our country reels from the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and the resulting devastation of so many families, so many communities and even cities, Hill takes us inside the "crisis of home" Americans are confronting. Along the way she exposes its deep roots in race and gender inequities which continue to haunt the country and imperil every American's ability to achieve the American Dream]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1324924</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1324924</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hill, Anita]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1324924092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807014370/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments]]></title><description><![CDATA["In wrestling with the question, "What is a free life?" many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written, Wayward Lives narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life.  It re-creates the experience of young black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them, and, for the first time, credits them with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives seeks to recover the radical aspirations and insurgent desires of these young women."--Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1497699</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1497699</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hartman, Saidiya V.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1497699092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393357622/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens]]></title><description><![CDATA["As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture.   Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restrictions of segregation. Sharpless also shows how these women's employment served as a bridge from old labor arrangements to new ones. As opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions.   Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, this book evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home. Sharpless looks beyond stereotypes to introduce the real women who left their own houses and families each morning to cook in other women's kitchens."--Publisher's description]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1592404</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1592404</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharpless, Rebecca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1592404092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807834329/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souls of My Sisters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black women from all walks of life talk openly, honestly--and often for the first time--about their most intimate concerns, feelings, and situations. Arranged thematically--from abortion to AIDS to date rape, love, sex, and money--this landmark anthology touches every aspect of the black female experience]]></description><link>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1371780</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S92C1371780</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1371780092</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories, and Heal Their Spirits</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781575666532/MC.GIF&amp;client=chplp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>