African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence ThomasGeneva Smitherman An essential voice has been added to the ongoing national debate and public discourse on race, class, and gender. African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas is the first commentary on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation written exclusively by African American women. Margaret Walker Alexander, Angela Y. Davis, Darlene Clark Hine, Harriette McAdoo, Julianne Malveaux, and other scholars and writers offer reflections and in-depth analyses on one of the most wrenching public dramas in recent history. Diverse and interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions clarify the significance of the event and examine the broader ramifications for the African American community and the nation. |
Contents
Introduction | |
On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses | |
Statement of Anita F Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee | |
Statement of Clarence Thomas to the Senate Judiciary | |
Where Im Coming From | |
A Righteous Rage and a Grassroots Mobilization | |
Social and Political Thought on Anita Hill from the Feminist | |
Whose Boy Is This? | |
Thomas on the Hill Dark Town | |
African American Women | |
Was There | |
The Sexual Exploitation | |
Reflections on Anita | |
A Forensic Psychiatrist Reflects on Sexual Harassment | |
Which Is Master? | |
Anita Hill Clarence | |
African American Women Communities | |
The Odyssey of Anita Hill | |
The End of One Era and the Beginning | |
Anita Hill Clarence Thomas and the Crisis of Black Political | |
Where Im Coming From | |
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