Research Catalog

  • I've been a woman : new and selected poems / Sonia Sanchez.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Third World Press, [1985]
    • 1985
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc *Ref Third World Press t.93Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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    Text Sc D 88-205Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • My one good nerve : rhythms, rhymes, reasons / by Ruby Dee.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Third World Press, [1986]
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 19-259Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc D 87-1202Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mihloti / Miriam Tlali.

    • Text
    • Johannesburg : Skotaville Publishers, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 87-366Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The new legal status of Zulu women / C.R.M. Dlamini.

    • Text
    • Kwa Dlangezwa, South Africa : University of Zululand, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 87-1105Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A socio-economic overview : Zimbabwe women / by Olivia N. Muchena.

    • Text
    • Addis Ababa : United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 87-499Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Femme et noire en Afrique du Sud / Ellen Kuzwayo ; traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Hélène Dumas ; préface de Nadine Gordimer.

    • Text
    • Paris : Editions Robert Laffont, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 88-315Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The image of Black women in twentieth-century South American poetry : a bilingual anthology / edited and translated by Ann Venture Young.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 88-321Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Scribe sistren : poems / by Benji.

    • Text
    • London : Centerprise Trust, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 88-686Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Women in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Sharon Harley, Andrea Benton Rushing.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 90-812Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JLE 88-2692Offsite
  • Lives of courage : women for a new South Africa / Diana E.H. Russell.

    • Text
    • New York : Basic Books, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 90-22Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Black women and the peace movement / by Wilmette Brown ; foreword by Janice Owens ; introduction by Juliet Yelverton.

    • Text
    • Bristol [Gloucestershire] : Falling Wall Press, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 90-3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Lives of courage : women for a new South Africa / Diana E.H. Russell.

    • Text
    • New York : Basic Books, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 90-152Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • The hidden struggle : statutory and voluntary sector responses to violence against Black women in the home / Amina Mama.

    • Text
    • London : London Race and Housing Research Unit, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 90-735Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JFD 11-924Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A maternidade da mulher negra no período colonial brasileiro / Mary Del Priore.

    • Text
    • São Paulo : CEDHAL, Centro de Estudos de Demografia Histórica da América Latina, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc G 90-28Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Rastafari [videorecording] : conversations concerning woman / Eye in I Filmworks ; [produced and directed by] Renee Romano and Elliott Lieb.

    • Moving image
    • New Haven, CT : Eye in I Filmworks, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 3 Items
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    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-300 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-1027 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual VRB-59Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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  • Claudia Jones, 1915-1964 : a woman of our times / [researched and compiled by Jennifer Tyson].

    • Text
    • London : Camden Black Sisters Publications, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 89-337Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Four women / by Ray Uter ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • London : The Bookplace, 198-?]
    • 1980-1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 89-1103Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The functional and symbolic roles of hair and headgear among Afro-American women [microform] : a cultural perspective / by Anna Atkins Simkins.

    • Text
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-5022Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Induku ayinamzi / Edith Setidisho.

    • Text
    • Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 496.3-S (Setidisho, E. Induku ayinamzi)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc C 90-12Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mulher negra / Sueli Carneiro, Thereza Santos. Política governamental e a mulher / Albertina Gordo de Oliveira Costa.

    • Text
    • São Paulo, SP : Nobel : Conselho Estadual da Condição Feminina, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 3 Items
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    Text JLD 87-187Offsite
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    Text Sc D 88-21Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc D 89-1078Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Ton combat, femme noire [microform] : théâtre / Katende Katsh M'Bika.

    • Text
    • Kinshasa : Editions de l'UEZA, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-11796Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Frauen unter Apartheid : Photografien und Texte / [herausgegeben] International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, in co-operation with the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid.

    • Text
    • Trier : Tréves, 1986, c1984.
    • 1986-1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 90-165Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Black feminist theology [microform] : a new word about God / by La Taunya Marie Bynum.

    • Text
    • 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-5523Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Hommage a la femme noire / Simone Schwarz-Bart ; avec la collaboration de André Schwarz-Bart.

    • Text
    • [Belgium] : Editions Consulaires, 1988-
    • 1988-present
    • 6 Items
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    Text Sc G 91-30 v. 6Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc G 91-30 v. 5Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc G 91-30 v. 4Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Namibia : women in war / Tessa Cleaver, Marion Wallace ; foreword by Glenys Kinnock.

    • Text
    • London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items
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    Text JLD 91-403Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text Sc D 91-111Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Silenced : talks with working class West Indian women about their lives and struggles as domestic workers in Canada / Makeda Silvera.

    • Text
    • Toronto : Sister Vision, 1989.
    • 1989-1983
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 01-762Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JLD 91-295Offsite
  • Revista de cultura vozes.

    • Text
    • Petrópolis, RJ : Editora Vozes, 1989-1992
    • 1989-1992
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFL 91-119 v. 85-86 mar. 1991- apr. 1992 incOffsite
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    Text JFL 91-119 v. 83-84 july 1989- oct 1990 inc.Offsite
  • Mãe negra [microform] : (estudo) / Rodrigues Júnior.

    • Text
    • Coimbra : Atlantida, 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-11504Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mulher negra : resistência e soberania de uma raça / Agentes de Pastoral Negros.

    • Text
    • Petropolis, São Paulo : Vozes, 1990.
    • 1990-1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 91-363Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Passion : discourses on blackwomen's creativity / edited by Maud Sulter ; [photography, Ingrid Pollard].

    • Text
    • Hebdon Bridge, West Yorkshire : UFP, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 91-409Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The economic status of black women : an exploratory investigation.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, [1990]
    • 1990
    • 2 Items
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    Text JBF 99-983Offsite
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    Text Sc F 91-198Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • West Indian women at war : British racism in World War II / Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas.

    • Text
    • London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 91-1052Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JFD 91-11303Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Fanm Kouway : profiles of seven rural women in Dominica's develop / [by Natalie Charles Andrew].

    • Text
    • Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies : SPAT Publication, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 91-762Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia / Susheila Nasta, editor.

    • Text
    • London : Women's Press, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 91-13051Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc C 91-333Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sage.

    • Text
    • Atlanta, GA : Sage Women's Educational Press, c1984-[1995].
    • 1984-1995
    • 6 Items
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    Text Sc Ser.-M .S254 v. 8, no. 1-2 (summer 1991-fall 1994)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Ser.-M .S254 v. 6-7 (1989-1990)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JFM 91-387 v. 5-9 fall 1988 - summer 1995 inc.Offsite
  • Showing our colors : Afro-German women speak out / edited by May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye & Dagmar Schultz ; with a foreword by Audre Lorde ; translated by Anne V. Adams, in cooperation with Tina Campt, May Opitz & Dagmar Schultz.

    • Text
    • Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 92-41Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JFD 94-17265Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Daisy George photograph collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1964?-1985?
    • 1964-1985
  • Young, female and black / Heidi Safia Mirza.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 92-259Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Spare rib.

    • Text
    • London, Spare Ribs Ltd.
    • 1972-present
    • 15 Items
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    Text Sc Ser.-M .S6766 no. 238-239 (Oct./Nov.-Dec. 1992/Jan. 1993)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Ser.-M .S6766 no. 232-237 (Mar.-Sept. 1992)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text ReCAP 13-6434 no. 231-239 (Feb 1992-Jan 1993)Offsite
  • Women in the Caribbean; a record of career women in the Caribbean: their background, services, and achievements, edited by Henry A. Guy. Elton George, associated editor.

    • Text
    • [Port of Spain, Trinidad, Printed by Quick-Service Print. Co., 1968] c1966.
    • 1968-1966
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFE 91-499Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc 920.7-G (Guy, H. Women in the Caribbean)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Haïti et ses femmes : une étude d'évolution culturelle / par Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau.

    • Text
    • Port-au-Prince, Haiti : Presses libres, 1957.
    • 1957
    • 2 Items
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    Text JAZ B-551Offsite
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    Text Sc 396-B (Bouchereau, M. Haïti et ses femmes)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Black woman in search of God.

    • Text
    • London, Lutterworth Press [c1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 267.4-B (Brandel-Syrier, M. Black woman in search of God)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Le parfum de la dame noire : physiologie humoristique de l'amour africain / Louis Sonolet ; publiée d'après le manuscrit original de Paul Bourgette.

    • Text
    • Paris : Librairie F. Juven, [c1911]
    • 1911
    • 2 Items
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    Text SNF (Sonolet, L. Parfum de la dame noire)Offsite
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    Text Sc 176-S (Sonolet, L. Parfum de la dame noire)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Les problèmes de l'évolution de la femme noire; préface de Robert Godding.

    • Text
    • Elisabethville, Éditions de l'Essor du Congo, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 2 Items
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    Text SB p.v. 1131Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text Sc 173-B (Bolamba, A. Problèmes de l'évolution de la femme noire)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Anti-apartheid Women's newsletter.

    • Text
    • London : Anti-apartheid Movement, Women's Committee
    • unknown-present
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Ser.-M .A55673 no. 31, 36 (Mar./Apr. 1987, autumn 1988)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • African presence in the Americas exhibition poster collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 198-?
    • 1980-1989
  • To my children's children / Sindiwe Magona.

    • Text
    • London : Women's Press, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 92-11276Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • No burden to carry : narratives of Black working women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s / Dionne Brand ; with the assistance of Lois De Shield and the Immigrant Women's Job Placement Centre.

    • Text
    • Toronto, Ont., Canada : Women's Press, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 92-15400Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc D 93-79Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945 / edited by Cherryl Walker.

    • Text
    • Cape Town : D. Philip ; London ; J. Currey, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 92-12079Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc D 95-521Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Xarque and other poems / by Gayl Jones.

    • Text
    • Detroit, Mich. : Lotus Press, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 92-17335Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc D 00-3049Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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