By August 1974, the Black Panthers were a national organization to be reckoned with, supported by millions of blacks as well as white liberals. How Brown came t...
The author interprets the differences between African-American and Euro-American family patterns not as deviations from some pristine, universal, ideal family s...
A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She lear...
This landmark work in emerging African American "womanist" thought uses the image of Hagar--mother of Ishmael, cast into the wilderness by Abraham and Sarah but...
Former USA Today columnist Kristin Clark Taylor has put together a love song to African American mothers. As she writes in the Introduction: "to any mother who ...
In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and pr...