Description
"The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of importance." --from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin
"In this absolutely needed collection of essays by one of the leading American historians of our generation, the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon." --Susan M. Reverby, Luella LaMer Associate Professor for Women's Studies, Wellesley College
Author: Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 03/01/1997
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.99d
ISBN13: 9780253211248
ISBN10: 0253211247
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | United States | General
- Social Science | Women's Studies
About the Author
DARLENE CLARK HINE, John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 among many other publications and is the editor of the award-winning Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.