Black women in America / edited by Kim Marie Vaz.

Introduction : black women's lives and cultural contexts / Kim Marie Vaz
Black women's social history through the lens of their activism. African women's legacy : ambiguity, autonomy, and empowerment / Barbara A. Moss
Organizing for racial justice : black women and the dynamics of race and sex in female antislavery societies, 1832-1860 / Shirley J. Yee
Black women and the NAACP, 1909-1922 : an encounter with race, class, and gender / Dorothy C. Salem
Racial justice in Minnesota : the activism of Mary Toliver Jones and Josie Robinson Johnson / Mary C. Pruitt
The impact of the civil rights movement on the unionization of African-American women : local 282-furniture division-IUE, 1960-1988 / Deborah Brown Carter
Poor black sisters decided for themselves : a case study of 1960s women's liberation activism / M. Rivka Polatnick
Searching for a tradition : African-American women writers, activists, and interracial rape cases / Joy James.

Image wars : literary and popular constructions of black women. The condition of black women in Spain during the Renaissance / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
The rape complex in the Postbellum South / Madelin Joan Olds
On the use of medical diagnosis as name calling : Anita F. Hill and the rediscovery of "erotomania" / Bridget A. Aldaraca
Sapphires, spitfires, sluts, and superbitches : Afraamericans and Latinas in contemporary American film / Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
African-American single mothers : public perceptions and public policies / Shirley M. Geiger
Performing their visions. "Oh, what I think I must tell this world!" : oratory and public address of African-American women / Charles I. Nero
Before Althea and Wilma : African-American women in sports, 1924-1948 / Linda D. Williams
Black women in concert dance : the Philadelphia divas / Melanye White-Dixon
Sisters in the name of rap : rapping for women's lives / Robin Roberts.

Contemporary psychosocial challenges. Life satisfaction and the older African-American woman / Bernita C. Berry
Sisterhood among African-American mothers of daughters addicted to crack cocaine / Aaron A. Smith
Appendix : a brief guide to resources by and about African-American women / compiled by Gwynne L. Jenkins.