African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore African American women in the West have long been stereotyped as socially and historically marginal, existing in isolation from other women in the West and from their counterparts in the East and South. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore disprove this stereotype, arguing that African American women in the West played active, though sometimes unacknowledged, roles in shaping the political, ideological, and social currents that influenced the United States over the past three centuries. African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 is the first major historical anthology on the topic. Contributors to this volume explore the life experiences of African American women in the West, the myriad ways in which African American women have influenced the experiences of the diverse peoples of the region, and their legacy in rural and urban communities from Montana to Texas and California to Kansas. The contributors make use of individual and collective biographies, first-person narratives, and interviews that explore what it has meant to be an African American woman, from the era of Spanish colonial rule in eighteenth-century New Mexico into the black power era of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond. |
Contents
ISABEL DE OLVERA ARRIVES | 31 |
A TEXAS SLAVES LETTER | 55 |
GenderedRights Consciousness | 73 |
Sacramentos Black Women | 97 |
Women of the Great Falls African Methodist | 122 |
CHAPMAN DESCRIBES BLACKS | 140 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB | 178 |
Lucinda Todd and the Invisible Petitioners | 312 |
Clara Luper and the Civil Rights Movement | 328 |
BLACK PANTHER | 344 |
Selected Bibliography | 363 |
List of Contributors 373 | 373 |
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References to this book
African Americans of Denver Ronald Jemal Stephens,La Wanna M. Larson,Black American West Museum Limited preview - 2008 |