But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

But Some of Us Are Brave......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 9
WOMEN......Page 13
Foreword......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Visions and Recommendations......Page 33
Section One: Searching For Sisterhood: Black Feminism......Page 37
1. A Black Feminist\'s Search for Sisterhood......Page 39
2. A Black Feminist Statement......Page 47
3. Selected Bibliography on Black Feminism......Page 57
Section Two: Roadblocks and Bridges: Confronting Racism......Page 69
4. One Child of One\'s Own: A Meaningful Digression Within the Work(s) - An Excerpt......Page 71
5. Racism - A White Issue......Page 79
6. Racism and Women\'s Studies......Page 82
7. Face-to-Face, Day-to-Day-Racism CR......Page 86
Section Three: Dispelling the Myths: Black Women and the Social Sciences......Page 93
8. Studying Slavery: Some Literary and Pedagogical Considerations on the Black Female Slave......Page 95
9. Debunking Sapphire: Toward a Non-Racist and Non-Sexist Social Science......Page 119
10. Two Representative Issues in Contemporary Sociological Work on Black Women......Page 127
Section Four: Creative Survival: Preserving Body, Mind, and Spirit......Page 135
11. Black Women\'s Health: Notes for a Course......Page 137
12. Three\'s a Crowd: The Dilemma of the Black Woman in Higher Education......Page 149
13. Slave Codes and Liner Notes......Page 163
14. Black Women and the Church......Page 175
Section Five: \"Necessary Bread\": Black Women\'s Literature......Page 189
15. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism......Page 191
16. \"This Infinity of Conscious Pain\": Zora Neale Hurston and the Black Female Literary Tradition......Page 210
17. Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective......Page 223
18. Black-Eyed Blues Connections: Teaching Black Women......Page 230
19. Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers......Page 242
Section Six: Bibliographies and Bibliographic Essays......Page 253
20. Afro-American Women, 1800-1910: Excerpts from a Working Bibliography......Page 255
21. Afro-American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: A Guide to Research and Bio-Bibliographies of the Poets......Page 279
22. On the Novels Written by Selected Black American Women: A Bibliographical Essay......Page 295
23. Black Women Playwrights from Grimké to Shange: Selected Synopses of Their Works......Page 314
24. American Black Women Composers: A Selected Annotated Bibliography......Page 331
25. A Listing of Non-Print Materials on Black Women......Page 341
Additional References and Resources......Page 361
Section Seven: Doing the Work: Selected Course Syllabi......Page 369
General / Social / Interdisciplinary......Page 371
Literature......Page 394
About the Contributors......Page 413
Acknowledgments......Page 417
Index......Page 421
Reprints from the Feminist Press......Page 436
Other Titles from The Feminist Press......Page 437