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Images of Blacks in Plays by Black Women

Phylon (1960-), 1986
ALICE CHILDRESS, born in 1920 in Charleston, South Carolina and reared in New York City, is an actress, playwright, novelist, editor, and lecturer.' Claiming her grandmother, the Bible, Shakespeare, and Paul Laurence Dunbar as principal influences, Childress developed into an exceptional playwright.2 However, few are aware of the immense contributions ...
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Theatre of Black Women

2020
This chapter tells the story of Britain’s first black women’s theatre company, Theatre of Black Women (TBW). It follows founding members Bernardine Evaristo and Patricia Hilaire from their teenage participation in drama groups through their studies at Rose Bruford College to touring their work internationally, funded by Greater London Council, Greater ...
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black women and feminism

1998
Abstract More than a hundred years have passed since the day Sojourner Truth stood before an assembled body of white women and men at an anti-slavery rally in Indiana and bared her breasts to prove that she was indeed a woman. To Sojourner, who had traveled the long road from slavery w freedom, the baring of her breasts was a small ...
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Black women and feminism

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 1990
Little research to date has examined the attitudes of black women toward feminism, primarily because few national surveys contain sufficient numbers of black women to take meaningful generalizations. Using data from a national survey of blacks in 1980, this study explores the levels and determinants of feminism among black women.
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Black Liberation, Women's Liberation

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
The authors interviewed 74 randomly selected college students in an attempt to determine reasons for black women's lack of involvement in the women's liberation movement. Black female students showed a great concern with blackness and its implications but less concern than their white counterparts about integrating vocational interests with their ...
Joan R. Sealy, Andrew E. Slaby
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Black Women and the Future

Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1981
Black women's influence upon and reaction to social and economic change in the dawn of the twenty-first century are examined. Selected trends in labor force participation and family organization are discussed in relation to possible consequences for black women's role in the family and the socialization of black females.
Daphne Duval Harrison   +1 more
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Black Women and the Academy

Callaloo, 1994
I want to thank Evelyn Hammonds and Robin Kilson for having devoted probably the last year of their lives to the organization of this absolutely magnificent gathering. This gathering has done so many things for all of us: we have been able to reconnect with friends and former colleagues and sister comrades and students, many of whom we might never have
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Abortion Attitudes of Black Women

Women & Health, 1977
The liberalization of abortion laws beean in 1967 in Colorado and progresied to 17 other states by 1973, at which time the Supreme Court declared that all restrictive abortion laws were unconstitutional. The increasing availability of legal abortion within the country has been temporarily associated with an improvement in maternal health parameters ...
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Black Women in America

1995
Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz Black Women's Lives and Cultural Contexts PART ONE: IN OPPOSITION: BLACK WOMEN'S SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF THEIR ACTIVISM African Women's Legacy - Barbara A Moss Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment Organizing for Racial Justice - Shirley J Yee Black Women and the Dynamics of Race and Sex in Female Antislavery ...
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Black Women and Gangs

2000
The gang phenomenon has become synonymous with black male criminality, and societal solutions have emphasized increased incarceration of these men. The gang problem cannot be resolved unless policymakers, academics, and the media provide more balanced attention to these affected groups.
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