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Title:

Sister circle : Black women and work / edited by Sharon Harley and the Black Women and Work Collective ; with a foreword by Nellie Y. McKay.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xxii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women--History.--History.--Sources.
African American women--Interviews.

Other Authors:

Harley, Sharon.
Black Women and Work Collective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A When the spirit takes hold : what the work becomes! / Judi Moore Latta. Flying the love bird and other tourist jobs in Jamaica : women workers in Negril / A. Lynn Bolles -- "Working for nothing but for a living" : black women in the underground economy / Sharon Harley -- Between a rock and a hard place : mothering, work, and welfare in the rural south / Bonnie Thornton Dill ; Tallese Johnson -- Getting paid : black women economists reflect on women and work / Rhonda M. Williams -- "Don't let nobody bother yo' principle" : the sexual economy of American slavery / Adrienne Davis -- "And we claim our rights" : the rights rhetoric of black and white women activists before the Civil War / Carla L. Peterson -- "What are we worth" : Anna Julia Cooper defines black women's work at the dawn of the twentieth century / Shirley Wilson Logan -- "All of the glory-- faded-- quickly" : Sadie T.M. Alexander and black professional women, 1920-1950 / Francille Rusan Wilson -- A sister in the brotherhood : Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the sleeping car porters, 1930-1950 / Melinda Chateauvert -- Declaring (ambiguous) liberty : Paule Marshall's middle-class women / Mary Helen Washington -- Searching for memories : visualizing my art and our work / Deborah Willis -- Labor above and beyond the call : a black woman scholar in the academy / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie -- When the spirit takes hold : what the work becomes! / Judi Moore Latta.

ISBN:

9780813530611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081353061X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813530604 (alk. paper)
0813530601 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48163629

LCCN:

2001048613

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)