Bitter fruit
Subtitle: African American women in World War II
By: edited with an introduction by Maureen Honey.
Contributors: Honey, Maureen, 1945-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia [Mo.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States; African American women -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Despite the participation of African American women in all aspects of home-front activity during World War II, advertisements, recruitment posters, and newsreels portrayed largely white women as army nurses, defense plant workers, concerned mothers, and steadfast wives. This sea of white faces left for posterity images such as Rosie the Riveter, obscuring the contributions that African American women made to the war effort."--BOOK JACKET.

"Traditional anthologies of African American literature jump from the Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s with little or no reference to the decades between those periods. Bitter Fruit not only illuminates the literature of these decades but also presents an image of black women as community activists that undercuts gender stereotypes of the era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and indexes.
Chiefly material reprinted from The crisis, Opportunity, Negro digest, and Negro story.