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Gender Studies

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Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States

Current Issues

Edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Ngina S. Chiteji
Subjects: African American Studies, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies

A unique examination of asset accumulation and the connection between wealth and well-being among different racial and ethnic communities in the United States

Mammy

A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory

By Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

Power and Possibility

Essays, Reviews, and Interviews

By Elizabeth Alexander
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong

The Black Female Body in American Culture

Edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

On Gwendolyn Brooks

Reliant Contemplation

Edited by Stephen Caldwell Wright
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Under Discussion

A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize

Sex, Race, and Merit

Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment

Edited by Faye J. Crosby & Cheryl VanDeVeer
Subjects: Education, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, American Politics, Race and Ethnicity

Traces the history of this divisive national issue, as reflected in the writings of key opinion makers and in public documents

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

Revised Edition

Revised Edition

Edited by Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, History, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies

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