Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
by Deborah Gray White
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Deborah Gray White is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her books include Too Heavy A Load: Block Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994, Let My People Go: African Americans 1804-1860, and Ar'n't l a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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- 305.48 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women
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- E185.86 .W43875 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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