Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Before 1985

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We have previously published lists of resources by womanist and Black feminist authors. These are resources since 1985 (less than 40 years old). However, today's list provides resources published prior to 1985. We hope you enjoy and will add to these resources.

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

Brooks, Gwendolyn. 1968. In the Mecca. NY: 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.

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. NY: Random House.

———. 1981. Women, Race, and Class. NY: Random House.

Hurston, Zora Neale. 1937. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.

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

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. NY: New Press.

Hull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (eds.). 1982. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press.

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

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

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

Lorde, Audre. 1977. The Black Unicorn: Poems. NY: 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. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

———. 1973. Sula. NY: Knopf.

———. 1977. Song of Solomon. NY: Knopf.

Shange, Ntozake. 1975. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. NY: Macmillan.

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

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

———. 1982. The Color Purple. NY: 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. NY: New Age Print.

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