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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.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Stacks  HD6057.5.U5 S576 2002    Available  ---
Description xxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The black side of the mirror : the black body in the workplace / Taunya Lovell Banks -- 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.
Subject African American women -- Employment -- History -- Sources.
African American women -- Employment.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject African American women.
African American women -- Interviews.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Interviews.
Added Author Harley, Sharon.
Black Women and Work Collective.
ISBN 081353061X paperback alkaline paper
0813530601 alkaline paper