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This book discusses a critical analysis of the cultural atmosphere surrounding young women of color and the influence of this culture on their development as females in a society that embodies race, class and gender as the forefront of self-identity. Analyzing magazines and popular series novels, television shows, social and academic spaces and personal life experiences of young women of color, the book explores from historical forms of understanding and interpreting females of color and their role in youth culture to what those practices and spaces look like today.

African American women --- Social conditions.

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African American women --- African American women --- Discrimination in higher education --- Doctor of philosophy degree --- Educational equalization --- Education (Higher) --- Social conditions

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Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community.

African American women in literature. --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American women as literary characters --- Walker, Alice, --- Walker, A. --- Leventhal, Alice Walker, --- וואקר, אליס, --- アリスウォーカー, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Color purple (Walker, Alice)

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Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle was at its most intense. Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known acti

Civil rights movements --- Women civil rights workers --- African Americans --- African American women civil rights workers --- Women --- History --- Civil rights --- United States --- Race relations --- 1900-1999

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Through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, this account speaks directly to the single black woman's experience, addressing unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the ""Baby Mama Syndrome."" Women discuss the false expectations they face from men, from families, and from friends as well as reevaluate dating, single home ownership, career choices, having children?or not?and caring for aged parents. Their conclusion: singlehood, whether temporary or perm

Single women --- African American single people --- African American women --- Single mothers --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Single people --- Women --- Afro-American single people --- Single people, African American --- Mothers --- Single parents --- Psychology.