Title: Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves
First published: February 2000
Description: Too Heavy a Load explores this century's rich history of black women defending, defining, and explaining themselves. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, it also brings to light and celebrates twentieth-century African American women's unlauded support for women's rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.

Too Heavy a Load also takes us beyond the reach of history in its moving and fascinating illumination of black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable pull of the agendas of white women and black men.

Finally, it tells the larger and lamentable story of how Americans began this century measuring racial progress by the status of black women, but gradually came to focus on the status of black men - the masculinization of America's racial consciousness.
Subjects: African american women, African americans, social conditions, African americans, societies, etc., African americans, civil rights, Social sciences, Ethnic studies, Afro-American women, Civil rights, Societies and clubs, African American women, Social conditions, History, Schwarze Frau, Geschichte 1894-1994, Sociale bewegingen, Negers, Vrouwen, Verein, Soziale Situation, Bürgerrecht, Burgerrechten
Time periods: 20th century