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Flat-footed truths : telling Black women's lives

Title
  1. Flat-footed truths : telling Black women's lives / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Bell-Scott, with Juanita Johnson-Bailey.
Published by
  1. New York : Henry Holt, 1998.

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Additional authors
  1. Bell-Scott, Patricia.
  2. Johnson-Bailey, Juanita.
Description
  1. xx, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject
  1. Minority women > United States > Social conditions
  2. African American women > Social conditions
  3. Women, Black > United States > Social conditions
  4. African American women > Biography
  5. Autobiography
Contents
  1. If you lose your pen / Ruth Forman -- Writing autobiography / bell hooks -- Sapphire : the artist as witness / Patricia Bell-Scott -- Harriet Ann Buckley : an artist storyteller / Juanita Johnson-Bailey -- Autobiography / Marita Golden -- Through the storm, through the night / Brenda Faye Bell -- Looking for Zora / Alice Walker -- The brass bed / Pearl Cleage -- To Miss Ida Bee with love / Miriam DeCosta-Willis -- Representing Truth : Sojourner Truth's knowing and becoming known / Nell Irvin Painter -- Legacy/Repeat after me / Akasha (Gloria) Hull -- I am writing this / Elaine Shelly -- Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde -- My American herstory / Pearl Cleage -- "I had to tell the truth" : testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings for Judge Clarence Thomas / Anita F. Hill -- Barbara Smith : home girl with a mission / Patricia Bell-Scott -- In answer to the question : have you ever considered suicide? / Kate Rushin -- Movin' and steppin' / Akasha (Gloria) Hull -- The transformation of silence into language and action / Audre Lorde -- Writing survival / Valerie Jean -- Poet Sonia Sanchez : telling what we must hear / Juanita Johnson-Bailey -- A poem for flight / Becky Birtha.
Call number
  1. Sc D 98-1280
Title
  1. Flat-footed truths : telling Black women's lives / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Bell-Scott, with Juanita Johnson-Bailey.
Imprint
  1. New York : Henry Holt, 1998.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Added author
  1. Bell-Scott, Patricia.
  2. Johnson-Bailey, Juanita.
LCCN
  1. 97035108
ISBN
  1. 0805046283 (hb : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 98-1280
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