Title
Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994 / Deborah Gray White.
ISBN
0393046672
9780393046670
039331992X
9780393319927
Publication
New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999.
Copyright Notice Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994
Black women writers. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949- Too heavy a load. First edition. New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-310) and index.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Divided against myself
First step in nation-making
Dilemmas of nation-making
Their own best argument
New era
Rethinking place
Sacrifices of unity
Making a way out of no way
Past and future meet
Notes
Index.
Also listed under
United States of America New York.