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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kate Dossett |
ISBN: | 9780813031408 0813031400 |
OCLC Number: | 123968020 |
Description: | xvi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Laying the groundwork : Washington, Burroughs, Bethune, and the clubwomen's movement -- Black nationalism and interracialism in the Young Women's Christian Association -- Luxuriant growth : the Walkers and Black economic nationalism -- Amy Jacques Garvey, Jessie Fauset, and pan-African feminist thought. |
Responsibility: | Kate Dossett. |
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Abstract:
Examines the political thought and cultural production of prominent black women leaders in the years between the founding of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. This work positions black women at the forefront of intellectual and practical endeavors in the struggle for black autonomy.
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"Bridging Race Divides breaks new ground in African American and women's history by challenging assumptions about African American women's relationship to black nationalist movements in the United States" - Sarah Judson, University of North Carolina, Asheville" Read more...

