Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. McDonald, Trevy Ann.
2. Ford-Ahmed, T.

Description

1. xix, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Alternative title

1. Nature of a sister

Subject

1. African American women
2. Racism > United States
3. African American women in the professions > United States
4. African American women teachers > United States
5. African American women executives > United States
6. African Americans and mass media
7. African American women > Social conditions
8. Feminism > United States

Contents

1. Giving the sistuhs their due : the lived experiences of African-American women in academia / Janice D. Hamlet -- Defining essence in the public image of a Black woman : the lived experiences of a law professor / Karen Strother-Jordan -- Reclamation and discoveries : an African-American women's historian's efforts to chronicle the experiences of African-American women teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-1983 / Sonya Ramsey -- A chance of double lives : phenomenological study of Black female graduate experience / Priya Kapoor -- Corporeal explosions : the lived experiences of African-American graduate women during an explosive week / T. Ford-Ahmed -- She works hard for her money : the experiences of African-American women in the workplace / Pamela Y. Dikes -- Metaphors for negotiating work and family : Black professional working mothers' dual roles / Audrey Curtis Hane -- There's always a line of separation : the figuring of race, gender, and class in the construction of corporate identities / Jeanne L. Porter -- Journeys in African-American womanhood : emerging community-oriented spirituality / Brigitte Rouson -- Aunt Hagar's daughters : three women in the neo-Pentecostal tradition / Deborah A. Austin -- Of grace and glory : African-American women clergy and their sermons / Vanessa Wynder Quainoo -- The more they change, the more they remain the same : representations of African-American womanhood on Living single / Katrina E. Bell -- Tired of the world according to young men's machismo : Black women's reactions to representations of Black women in music videos / Trevy A. McDonald -- Discourse on Disney : bibliographic references & women playing the life of The Lion King / Adwoa X. Muwzea -- Lead on with light : a phenomenology of leadership as seen in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Jeanne L. Porter -- Lessons in Black feminist pedagogy : Ernest Gaines' A lesson before dying and the transformation of pedagogy / Doris Yaa Dartey -- Self-definition and silence : Black feminist thoughts and August Wilson (scattered thoughts for a work in progress) / R. Goldman Vander.

Call number

1. Sc E 99-708

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Nature of a sistuh : Black women's lived experiences in contemporary culture / edited by Trevy McDonald and T. Ford-Ahmed.

Imprint

1. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. McDonald, Trevy Ann.
2. Ford-Ahmed, T.

LCCN

1. 98088954

ISBN

1. 0890898596 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc E 99-708