Anthropology For The Nineties

Politics & Social Sciences

Cole, Johnnetta B.

Social Sciences

Free Press

Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been ignored for far too long. Hard-hitting and brilliant in its analysis of culture and sexual politics, Gender Talk asserts boldly that gender matters are critical to the Black community in the twenty-first century. In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender. Gender Talk examines why the “race problem” has become so male-centered and how this has opened a deep divide between Black women and men. The authors turn to their own lives, offering intimate accounts of their experiences as daughters, wives, and leaders. They examine pivotal moments in African American history when race and gender issues collided with explosive results—from the struggle for women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century to women’s attempts to gain a voice in the Black Baptist movement and on into the 1960s, when the Civil Rights movement and the upsurge of Black Power transformed the Black community while sidelining women. Along the way, they present the testimonies of a large and influential group of Black women and men, including bell hooks, Faye Wattleton, Byllye Avery, Cornell West, Robin DG Kelley, Michael Eric Dyson, Marcia Gillispie, and Dorothy Height. Provding searching analysis into the present, Cole and Guy-Sheftall uncover the cultural assumptions and attitudes in hip-hop and rap, in the O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson trials, in the Million Men and Million Women Marches, and in the battle over Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Fearless and eye-opening, Gender Talk is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of African American women—and men.

Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly

One World/Ballantine

In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. In Gender Talk Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender. Examining why the “race problem” has become so male-centered and how this has opened a deep divide between Black women and men, the authors turn to their own lives, offering intimate accounts of their experiences as daughters, wives, and leaders. They examine pivotal moments in African American history when race and gender issues collided with explosive results. Along the way, they present the testimonies of a large and influential group of Black women and men, including Byllye Avery, Derrick A. Bell, Farai Chideya, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Michael Eric Dyson, Marcia Gillespie, bell hooks, and Faye Wattleton. Fearless and eye-opening, Gender Talk is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of African American women—and men.

Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities

Random House Publishing Group

The president of Spelman College reaches out to America's young black women, calling on them to take an active role in making their world a better place, discussing racism, sexism, isolationism, and Eurocentrism. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

DOUBLEDAY

The first African-American woman to head Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, offers an inspirational collection of aphorisms that encourages readers to pursue their dreams.

Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life

Self-Help

Motivational

Longstreet Press

The first African-American woman to head Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, offers an inspirational collection of aphorisms that encourages readers to pursue their dreams.

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Anthropology For The Nineties

Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities

Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities

Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President

Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life

Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life