Black women in America
By: edited by Kim Marie Vaz.
Contributors: Vaz, Kim Marie.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: African American women -- Social conditions.
Description: A provocative, insightful volume, Black Women in America offers an interdisciplinary study of black women's historic activism, representation in literature and popular media, self-constructed images, and current psychosocial challenges. This new work of outstanding scholars in the field of race and gender studies explores the ways in which black women have constantly reconstructed and transformed alien definitions of black womanhood.

Black women have an image of themselves that differs from those others impose. Collectively, the contributors to this anthology demonstrate that such socially constructed images hide the complexities and ambiguities, the challenges, and the joys experienced in the real lives of black women.

. Black Women in America is a welcome resource for scholars and students in African American or Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology, and Psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-375) and index.