The Black Woman An Anthology Author:Toni Cade Bambara (Editor), Eleanor W. Traylor (Introduction), Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Paule Marshall, Grace Lee Boggs, Abbey Lincoln A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers — When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women -- many w... more »ho would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them -- tackled issues surrounding race and sex, body image, the economy, politics, labor, and much more. Their words still resonate with truth, relevance, and insight today.
Contents:
Woman poem / Nikki Giovanni --
Poem / Kay Lindsey --
Naturally / Audre Lorde --
And what about the children / Audre Lorde --
Reena / Paule Marshall --
The diary of an African nun / Alice Walker --
Tell Martha not to moan / Shirley Williams --
Mississippi politics - a day in the life of Ella J. Baker / Joanne Grant --
Motherhood / Joanna Clark --
Dear black man / Fran Sanders --
To whom will she cry rape? / Abbey Lincoln --
The black woman as a woman / Kay Lindsey --
Double jeopardy: to be black and female / Frances Beale --
On the issue of roles / Toni Cade --
Black man, my man, listen! / Gail Stokes --
Is the black male castrated? / Jean Carey Bond and Patricia Peery --
The kitchen crisis / Verta Mae Smart-Grosvenor --
End racism in education: a concerned parent speaks / Maude White Katz --
I fell off the roof one day (a view of the black university) / Nikki Giovanni --
Black romanticism / Joyce Green --
Black people and the Victorian ethos / Gwen Patton --
Black pride? Some contradictions / Ann Cook --
The pill: genocide or liberation? / Toni Cade --
The black social workers' dilemma / Helen Williams --
Ebony minds, black voices / Adele Jones and group --
Poor black women's study papers by poor black women of Mount Vernon, New York / Pat Robinson and group --
A historical and critical essay for black women in the cities, June 1969 / Pat Robinson and group --
The black revolution in America / Grace Lee Boggs --
Looking back / Helen Cade Brehon --
From the family notebook / Carole Brown --
Thinking about the play The great white hope / Toni Cade --
Are the revolutionary techniques employed in The battle of Algiers applicable to Harlem? / Francee Covington.« less