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Few authors have generated the critical attention that Toni Morrison has. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and the Noble Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison's fiction has not only shaped the landscape of modern American fiction, but it has had a profound effect in shaping the discussion of African American literature, life, and aesthetics. Morrison's works are dedicated to providing African Americans ways of defining and developing identity for themselves, their community, and their literary tradition. As towering and daunting as this purpose may be, Morrison has achieved even more. Creating literature about and for African Americans, Morrison gifts us with works that speak to and for all humankind. Edited and introduced by Solomon O. Iyasere and Marla W. Iyasere this volume collects some of the finest pieces of Morrison scholarship to date. 1.Career, Life, and Influence This section discusses Morrison's career and certain themes of her writings in fairly broad terms, along with a biography about the woman behind the literature. The rest of the text examines the writings of Morrison and their growing legacy. 2.Critical Context These essays aim to provide a background to the author that is a historical, cultural, and biographical foundation for the reader. 3.Critical Readings Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other original essays that explore a number of schools of thought. These essays utilize common critical approaches to further analyze the author's work, or specific works according to the selected theme. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. 4.Resources The volume's appendices offer a section of useful reference resources, including: A chronology of the author's life; A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication; A general bibliography; A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor; Notes on the individual chapter authors; and A subject index.
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As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restriction
African American women household employees --- Women cooks --- African American women --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Southern States --- Race relations
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Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. She outlines the history of reading and education in U.S. prisons, highlighting how the increasing dehumanization of prisoners has resulted in diminished priso
Women prisoners --- Books and reading. --- African American women --- Books and reading --- Study and teaching (Higher)
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African American women --- Human body --- Theological anthropology --- Religious life --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Christianity
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Belva Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half-century, including the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and Osama bin Laden's activities in Africa. Along the way, she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons: Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Nancy Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Fidel Castro, and others. Her absorbing memoir traces the trajectory of an extraordinary life in extraordinary times.
Journalists --- Television journalists --- African American women journalists --- Afro-American women journalists --- Women journalists, African American --- Women journalists --- Davis, Belva, --- African American women television journalists --- Women television journalists, African American --- Women television journalists
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"This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, which was a much more rare experience than the lynching of men. Of importance in this examination is the role of race in lynching, particularly the increase in the number of black lynchings as the century progressed. Details are provided for the lynchings"--Provided by publisher.
Lynching --- Women --- African American women --- Racism --- Lynchage --- Femmes --- Noires américaines --- Racisme --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Noires américaines
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Cancer --- African American women --- Human experimentation in medicine --- HeLa cells. --- Medical ethics --- Patients --- History --- Lacks, Henrietta, --- Health.
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Cancer --- African American women --- Human experimentation in medicine --- HeLa cells --- Cancer --- Cell culture --- Medical ethics --- Lacks, Henrietta, - 1920-1951
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When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Harris's memoir, A Woman's War, follows her 28-year career as a naval intelligence officer, sharing her unique experience and perspective as she completed the complex task of providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics.
Women intelligence officers --- Intelligence officers --- African American women --- Military intelligence --- Harris, Gail, --- Travel. --- United States. --- Intelligence specialists --- African Americans --- Women
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