Black women writers series | Oak Park Public Library

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Earliest Publication Date

1986

Description

'History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and breeder to their white owners. There are some facts and figures, but they tell us nothing about the women themselves: their motives, their emotions, and the memories they passed on to their children. Gayl Jones's first novel is a gripping portrait of this harsh sexual and psychological genealogy ... Jones's language is subtle and sinewy, and her imagination...

2) Gender and management: cases from the Caribbean

Author

Four, Linda Claudia de

Earliest Publication Date

2002

3) Kindred

Author

Butler, Octavia E

Earliest Publication Date

1988

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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...

4) Knowing what we know: African American women's experiences of violence and violation

Author

Garfield, Gail, 1964-

Earliest Publication Date

2005

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5) Like one of the family: conversations from a domestic's life

Author

Childress, Alice

Earliest Publication Date

1986

6) Midlife and older women: family life, work, and health in Jamaica

Author

Rawlins, Joan M

Earliest Publication Date

2006

7) Plum bun: a novel without a moral

Author

Fauset, Jessie Redmon

Earliest Publication Date

1990

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"Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation"--...

8) The Gilda stories

Author

Gomez, Jewelle, 1948-

Earliest Publication Date

1991

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"Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel."The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room"Jewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength."-Dorothy...

9) The Memphis diary of Ida B. Wells

Author

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931

Earliest Publication Date

1995