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Ar'n't I a Woman?

Female Slaves in the Plantation South

by Deborah Gray White ...

"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the ... Read more

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"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the
... Read more

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Telling Histories

Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

Edited by Deborah Gray White ...

Series series Gender and American Culture
The field of black women’s history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. Their essays illuminate how — first as graduate students and then as ... Read more

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The field of black women’s history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. Their essays illuminate how — first as graduate students and then as
... Read more
U.S. Women's History

Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

by Jacqueline Castledine, Anne Valk, Nancy A. Hewitt, Danielle Phillips, Rebecca Tuuri, Ariella Rotramel, Danielle L. McGuire0, Christina Greene1, Jen Manion2, Andrea Estepa3, Kirsten Delegard4 ...

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally ... Read more

$23.09 USD

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally
... Read more
Women's Activist Organizing in US History

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

by Dawn Durante, Deborah Gray White, Melinda Chateauvert, Tiffany Gill, Nancy A Hewitt, Treva B. Lindsey, Anne Firor Scott, Charissa J. Threat, Anne M. Valk, Lara Vapnek0, Daina Ramey Berry1 ...

Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women's acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women's acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women,
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Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

by Roberto C. Orozco, Carie Rael, Brooke A. Thomas, Ian Gavigan, Pamela N. Walker, Joseph Williams, Kaisha Esty, Whitney Fields, Beatrice J. Adams, Jesse Bayker, Kenneth Morrissey, Edward White, Tracey Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, Meagan Wierda, Lynda Dexheimer ...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s ... Read more

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The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s
... Read more
Let My People Go

African Americans 1804-1860

by Deborah Gray White ...

Series series The ^AYoung Oxford History of African Americans
In 1800, black voices began to rise against slavery. People like Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner, attempted to launch slave rebellions against the system. Others, such as Maria Stewart and Frederick Douglass wrote books, pamphlets, and speeches calling for the abolition of slavery in the "land of the free." The voices of abolitionists, both black and white, helped end slavery in the Northern states ... Read more

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In 1800, black voices began to rise against slavery. People like Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner, attempted to launch slave rebellions against the system. Others, such as Maria Stewart and Frederick Douglass wrote books, pamphlets, and speeches calling for the abolition of slavery in the "land of the free." The voices of abolitionists, both black and white, helped end slavery in the Northern states
... Read more
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two

Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945

by Beatrice J. Adams, Shauni Armstead, Miya Carey, Tracey Johnson, Brenann Sutter, Pamela N. Walker, Meagan Wierda, Caitlin Reed Wiesner, Shari Cunningham, Eri Kitada, Jerrad P Pacatte, Joseph Williams ...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was ... Read more

$16.59 USD

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was
... Read more
Lost in the USA

American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March

by Deborah Gray White ...

Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Remembered as an era of peace and prosperity, turn-of-the-millennium America was also a time of mass protest. But the political demands of the marchers seemed secondary to an urgent desire for renewal and restoration felt by people from all walks of life. Drawing on thousands of personal testimonies, Deborah Gray White explores how Americans sought better ways of living in, and dealing with, a ... Read more

$11.59 USD

Remembered as an era of peace and prosperity, turn-of-the-millennium America was also a time of mass protest. But the political demands of the marchers seemed secondary to an urgent desire for renewal and restoration felt by people from all walks of life. Drawing on thousands of personal testimonies, Deborah Gray White explores how Americans sought better ways of living in, and dealing with, a
... Read more
Half Sisters of History

Southern Women and the American Past

by Jacqueline Jones, Theda Perdue, Deborah Gray White, Anne Firor Scott ...

Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women’s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in this field over the past twenty years.This collection of essays by pioneering scholars surveys the ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women’s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in this field over the past twenty years.This collection of essays by pioneering scholars surveys the
... Read more
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Ar'n't I a Woman?

Female Slaves in the Plantation South

by Deborah Gray White ...

Narrated by Carmen Jewel Jones ...

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7 hours 12 min

"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." ―Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." ―Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the
... Read more

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A Walker in the City

by Alfred Kazin ...

Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

Unabridged

5 hours 45 min

A literary icon's "singular and beautiful" memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker).A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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A literary icon's "singular and beautiful" memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker).A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small,
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The Maiden At Midnight

by Kate Harper ...

Isabella Hathaway has had a dreadful twelve months; her father committed suicide after gaming away the family fortune, her brother is lost in the ongoing skirmishes with Bonaparte and her fiance has jilted her. Little wonder her spirit is bruised. To provide for her two sisters, she must find a suitable husband, no easy thing when she had been living under a cloud of scandal.When Isabella is ... Read more

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Isabella Hathaway has had a dreadful twelve months; her father committed suicide after gaming away the family fortune, her brother is lost in the ongoing skirmishes with Bonaparte and her fiance has jilted her. Little wonder her spirit is bruised. To provide for her two sisters, she must find a suitable husband, no easy thing when she had been living under a cloud of scandal.When Isabella is
... Read more

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