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Since the Black women's literary renaissance ended nearly three decades ago, a profitable and expansive market of self-help books, inspirational literature, family-friendly plays, and films marketed to Black women has emerged. Through messages of hope and responsibility, the writers of these texts develop templates that tap into legacies of literacy as activism, preaching techniques, and narrative formulas to teach strategies for overcoming personal traumas or dilemmas and resuming one's quality of lifeDrawing upon Black vernacular culture as well as scholarship in rhetorical theory, literacy studies, Black feminism, literary theory, and cultural studies, Tamika L. Carey deftly traces discourses on healing within the writings and teachings of such figures as Oprah Winfrey, Iyanla Vanzant, T. D. Jakes, and Tyler Perry, revealing the arguments and curricula they rely on to engage Black women and guide them to an idealized conception of wellness. As Carey demonstrates, Black women's wellness campaigns indicate how African Americans use rhetorical education to solve social problems within their communities and the complex gender politics that are mass-produced when these efforts are commercialized.

African American women --- African American women in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Healing. --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Afro-American women in literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Intellectual life. --- Psychology.

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More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis.

United States --- Feminism --- African American women. --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Race relations. --- Race question --- United States of America --- Racism --- Blackness --- Black feminism

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Freedmen --- Women slaves --- African American women clergy --- African American women --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Slaves --- Slave women --- Afro-American women clergy --- Women clergy, African American --- Women clergy --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Riley, Charlotte S., --- Riley, C.S. --- African Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Clergy --- Freedpersons --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved women

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African American intellectuals --- African Americans --- African American abolitionists --- African American women abolitionists --- Afro-American women abolitionists --- Women abolitionists, African American --- Women abolitionists --- Intellectual life --- Remond, Sarah Parker, --- Travel --- American Anti-Slavery Society --- Amerikanischen Gegensclaverey-Gesellschaft --- AASS (American Anti-Slavery Society)

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Autobiography --- African American feminists --- African American women authors --- African American women --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Feminists, African American --- Feminists --- Afro-American women authors --- Women authors, African American --- Women authors, American --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women authors. --- African American authors. --- Biography. --- Biography --- Political aspects. --- Afro-American authors --- Davis, Eisa. --- Danticat, Edwidge, --- Jordan, June, --- McNatt, Rosemary Bray. --- Beals, Melba.