From the Book - Regular Print
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Diasporic Beginnings --
Born on the Sea from Guinea Women's Spiritual Middle Passages in the Early Black Atlantic / Jon Sensbach --
Phillis Wheatley, a Public Intellectual / Arlette Frund --
Hart Sisters of Antigua Evangelical Activism and "Respectable" Public Politics in the Era of Black Atlantic Slavery / Natasha Lightfoot --
pt. II Race and Gender in the Postemancipation Era --
Battle for Womanhood Is the Battle for Race Black Women and Nineteenth-Century Racial Thought / Mia Bay --
A Taste of the Lash of Criticism Racial Progress, Self-Defense, and Christian Intellectual Thought in the Work of Amelia E. Johnson / Alexandra Cornelius --
Frances E.W. Harper and the Politics of Intellectual Maturity / Corinne T. Field.
pt. III Redefining the Subject of Study --
Ann Petry's Harlem / Farah J. Griffin --
Daughter of Haiti Marie Vieux Chauvet / Kaiama L. Glover --
Polarities of Space Segregation and Alice Walker's Intervention in Southern Studies / Thadious M. Davis --
Story, History, Discourse Maryse Conde's Segu and Afrodiasporic Historical Narration / Maboula Soumahoro --
pt. IV Intellectual Activism --
From Ladies to Women Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and Women's Political Activism in Post
Living by the Word June Jordan and Alice Walker's Quest for a Redemptive Art and Politics / Cheryl Wall --
Not to Rely Completely on the Courts Florynce Kennedy and Black Feminist Leadership in the Reproductive Rights Battle / Sherie M. Randolph --
Professor Merze Tate Diplomatic Historian, Cosmopolitan Woman / Barbara D. Savage --
Histories, Fictions, and Black Womanhood Bodies Race and Gender in Twenty-First-Century Politics / Martha S. Jones.