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"There has to be something said for being able to succeed in concisely communcating the issue of Black feminism and politics, but I think Duchess Harris has done just that." - Feminist Review
"A detailed account of how black women organized and identified themselves within the context of racism and black sexism in a capitalist society." - CHOICE
"I have been longing for a book that can conceptually interweave the legacy of the Combahee River Collective, the longstanding hostility by some in the black community toward the movie The Color Purple, and the political style of Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton offers us a little known political history - it is required reading for any serious student and scholar of contemporary African American s women s political participation. This book provides readers a new and valuable conceptual landscape of how African American feminists have engaged electoral and cultural politics despite consistent and powerful opposition. What a refreshing and much needed addition!" - Michele Tracy Berger, Author of Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS"Harris's analysis is both hopeful and disheartening. On the one hand, Harris provides oral, archival and literary histories of Black women without whom neither the Black Power nor the feminist movements would have progressed. On the other hand, Harris demonstrates that these movements, so beholden to Black women, have never adequately or fairly represented their needs and desires. Worse, they have too often asked Black women to choose between identities, prioritizing one over others." - Christine E. Hutchins, On the Issues Magazine
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Book Title: Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton
Authors: Duchess Harris
Series Title: Contemporary Black History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230623200
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61330-0Published: 11 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11255-1Published: 09 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62320-0Published: 20 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 190
Topics: Gender Studies, European Politics, US History, Political Science, Clinical Psychology, History of the Americas