Black Women in America
Social Science Perspectives
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Patterns and Resistances: Perspectives on Process and Progress
African-American Women’s Quilting: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Teaching African-American Women’s History
Elsa Barkley Brown
On Being the Object of Property
Patricia J. Williams
Challenging Dichotomies: the Intersections of Work and Family
A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism
Diane K. Lewis
The Dialectics of Black Womanhood
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Family Roles, Occupational Statuses, and Achievement Orientations among Black Women in the United States
Walter R. Allen
The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Mary Cocoran, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill
Exploding the Myth of African-American Progress
James A. Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin
Alliances across Generations: Sociohistorical Literature and Critiques
Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality
Susan A. Mann
For the Good of Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community, 1880-1930
Sharon Harley
Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke
Elsa Barkley Brown
Black Matrilineage: The Case of the Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston
Inventing Selves and Constituting Community
"Together and in Harness": Women’s Traditions in the Sanctified Church
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Family, Race, and Poverty in the Eighties
Maxine Baca Zinn
Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology
Deborah K. King
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
About the Contributors
Index
Patterns and Resistances: Perspectives on Process and Progress
African-American Women’s Quilting: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Teaching African-American Women’s History
Elsa Barkley Brown
On Being the Object of Property
Patricia J. Williams
Challenging Dichotomies: the Intersections of Work and Family
A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism
Diane K. Lewis
The Dialectics of Black Womanhood
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Family Roles, Occupational Statuses, and Achievement Orientations among Black Women in the United States
Walter R. Allen
The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Mary Cocoran, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill
Exploding the Myth of African-American Progress
James A. Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin
Alliances across Generations: Sociohistorical Literature and Critiques
Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality
Susan A. Mann
For the Good of Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community, 1880-1930
Sharon Harley
Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke
Elsa Barkley Brown
Black Matrilineage: The Case of the Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston
Inventing Selves and Constituting Community
"Together and in Harness": Women’s Traditions in the Sanctified Church
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Family, Race, and Poverty in the Eighties
Maxine Baca Zinn
Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology
Deborah K. King
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
About the Contributors
Index
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