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    The heart of a woman / by Angelou, Maya

    Published 1997
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    Infamous Bodies : Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights / by Pinto, Samantha

    Published 2020
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    Black internationalist feminism women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / by Higashida, Cheryl

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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    Telling histories Black women historians in the ivory tower /

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White -- Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter -- Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine -- A journey through history / Merline Pitre -- Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- My history in history / Deborah Gray White -- The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley -- History without illusion / Julie Saville -- On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. …”
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    9 plays by Black women /

    Published 1986
    Table of Contents: “…A Black woman speaks / by Beah Richards -- Toussaint / by Lorraine Hansberry -- Wedding band / by Alice Childress -- The tapestry / by Alexis DeVeaux -- Unfinished women cry in no man's land while a bird dies in a gilded cage / by Aishah Rahman -- spell #7 / by ntozake shange -- The brothers / by Kathleen Collins -- Paper dolls / by Elaine Jackson -- Brown silk and magenta sunsets / by P.J. …”
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    The politics of public housing Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Williams, Rhonda Y.

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.…”
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    Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Millward, Jessica

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860 -- Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion. …”
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    Emancipation's Daughters : Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body / by Richardson, Riche, 1971-

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…An Exemplary American Woman -- Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy -- From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother -- America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and -- Fashion -- First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South -- Side Girl and in American Grown -- Beyonce's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation…”
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    Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / by Ards, Angela Ann, 1969-

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.…”
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    Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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