| Description |
xxiii, 331 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Papers from a conference held at the University of Tennessee from September 15-18, 1999, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Tennessee. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-311) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Gender, education, and segregation. ch. 1 : British colonial policy toward education and the roots of gender inequality in Sierra Leone, 1861-1961 / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley -- ch. 2 : Agency and construction of professional identity : African American women educators in the the rural south / Valinda W. Littlefield -- pt. 2 : Image and substance. ch. 3 : The search for Anna Erskine : African American women in nineteenth-century Liberia / Nemata Blyden -- ch.4 : Image and representation : Black women in historical accounts of colonial Jamaica / Verene A. Sheppard -- pt. 3. Grassroots activism. ch. 5 : Helping ourselves : Black women and grassroots activism in segrerated South Africa, 1922-1952 / Catherine Higgs -- ch. 6 : African American clubwoman and the Indianapolis NAACP, 1912-1914 / Earline Rae Ferguson -- pt.4 : System of thought, modes of resistance. ch. 7 : Witchcraft, women, and taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930-1963 / Sean Redding -- ch.8 : "Mwen na rien, Msieu" : Jamaica Kincaid and the problem Of a Creole gnosis / Rhonda Cobham -- pt.5. Migration. ch. 9 : No place to call home : Refugee and internally displaced women in Kenya / Cassandra R. Veney -- ch.10 : The sisters and mothers are called to the city : African American women and the ever greater migration / Leslie Brown -- pt. 6. Religion and spirtuality. ch.11 : Mai Chaza and the politics of motherhood in colonial Zimbabwe / Barbara A. Moss -- ch. 12 : Standing their ground : Black women's sacred daily life / Fayth M. Parks -- pt. 7. Civil War and civil rights. ch. 13 : Gender and political struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 / Cora A. Presley -- ch.14 : The lady folk is a doer : Women and the Civil Rights movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby -- pt. 8. Women's voices. ch.15 : Strategies for survival by Luo female artists in the rural environ ment in Kenya / Patricia Achieng Opondo -- ch.16. Wild and holy women in the poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing -- pt. 9. Decolonizing black women. ch.17 : Owning what we know : Racial controversies in South African feminism,1991-1998 / Teresa Barnes -- ch. 18 : Decolonizing culture : The media, black women, and law / Deseriee Kennedy. |
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Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Women, Black -- Social conditions. |
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Cross-cultural studies. |
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Women, Black. |
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Women, Black -- Africa -- History -- Congresses.
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Africa. |
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History. |
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Women, Black -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
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African American women -- History -- Congresses.
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African American women. |
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African American women -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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African American women -- Social conditions. |
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Women, Black -- Jamaica -- History -- Congresses.
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Jamaica. |
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Women, Black -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Higgs, Catherine.
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Moss, Barbara A.
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Ferguson, Earline Rae, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0821414569 paperback |
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0821414550 |
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