Black Women in America: Social Science Perspectives Book

Introduction
Patterns and Resistances: Perspectives on Process and Progress
African-American Women's Quilting: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Teaching African-American Women's History
Elsa Barkley Brown

On Being the Object of Property
Patricia J. Williams

Challenging Dichotomies: the Intersections of Work and Family
A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism
Diane K. Lewis

The Dialectics of Black Womanhood
Bonnie Thornton Dill

Family Roles, Occupational Statuses, and Achievement Orientations among Black Women in the United States
Walter R. Allen

The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Mary Cocoran, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill

Exploding the Myth of African-American Progress
James A. Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin

Alliances across Generations: Sociohistorical Literature and Critiques
Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality
Susan A. Mann

For the Good of Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community, 1880-1930
Sharon Harley

Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke
Elsa Barkley Brown

Black Matrilineage: The Case of the Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston

Inventing Selves and Constituting Community
"Together and in Harness": Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Family, Race, and Poverty in the Eighties
Maxine Baca Zinn

Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness:The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology
Deborah K. King

The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins

About the Contributors
Index