Key Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Pre-1985

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Here's an updated list of Womanist and Black Feminist contributions prior to 1985. Some have been shared previously. Others have not. We hope you will locate several interesting reads among those we are sharing today!

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Proto-Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Before 1985

Bambara, Toni Cade (ed.). 1970. The Black Woman: An Anthology. New York: New American Library.

Barnett, Claudia Tate. 1979. Black Women Writers at Work. New York: Continuum.

Beal, Frances M. 1970. "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female." In Toni Cade Bambara (ed.), The Black Woman: An Anthology. New York: New American Library.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. 1968. In the Mecca. New York: Harper & Row.

Brown, Elsa Barkley. 1981. "Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke: A Womanist Analysis of Black Leadership." Signs 6: 673-685.

Chesnutt, Helen M. 1941. Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Cooper, Anna Julia. 1892. A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South. Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1981. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics." University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989(1): 139-167.

Davis, Angela Y. 1974. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Random House.

———. 1981. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Random House.

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1920. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe.

Duster, Alfreda. 1970. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Giovanni, Nikki. 1970. Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. Detroit: Broadside Press.

———. 1972. Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. 1979. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New York: New Press.

Harper, Frances E.W. 1892. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers.

Hurston, Zora Neale. 1935. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.

———. 1937. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.

———. 1942. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. New York: Harper.

Jacobs, Harriet A. 1861. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Boston: Published for the Author.

Jordan, June. 1971. His Own Where. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

———. 1981. Civil Wars. Boston: Beacon Press.

Keckley, Elizabeth. 1868. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.

Lorde, Audre. 1977. The Black Unicorn: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

———. 1982. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.

———. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.

Morrison, Toni. 1970. The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

———. 1973. Sula. New York: Knopf.

———. 1977. Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf.

Painter, Nell Irvin. 1977. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction. New York: Knopf.

———. 1986. The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Shange, Ntozake. 1975. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. New York: Macmillan.

Smith, Barbara. 1977. "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism." The Radical Teacher 7: 20-27.

Truth, Sojourner. 1850. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Boston: Published for the Author.

Walker, Alice. 1972. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

———. 1982. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

———. 1983. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1892. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. New York: New Age Print.

———. 1895. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry.