Womanist and Black Feminist Resources
Dear Research Network,
Here is a partial list of either Black Feminist or Womanist academic contributions. The list could easily be tripled and still would not be exhaustive. We would welcome comments with additional resources you would like to see added. We hope, in upcoming years, to have a curator to maintain the list.
The M2M Research Network hopes to soon curate archival data (electronic and physical locations for archives), online and print journals, books and eBooks, films and art studios. In the meantime, please see the partial list as an opportunity to suggest summer reading.
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Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Since 1985
Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (eds.) Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.
Patricia Bell-Scott et al (eds.). 1991. Double Stich: Black Women Writers About Mothers and Daughters. Boston:Beacon Press.
Rose Brewer. 1989. "Black Women and Feminist Sociology: the Emerging Perspective." The American Sociologist. 20: 57-70.
Elsa Barkley Brown. 1989. "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke." Signs. 14: 610-633.
Katie G. Cannon. 1985. "The Emergence of a Black Feminist Consciousness." pp. 30-40 in Feminist Interpretations of the Bible, ed. by Letty Russell. Philadelphia: Westminster.
_____. 1988. Black Womanist Ethics. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
_____. 1995. Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. NY: Continuum.
Deborah Chay. 1993. "Rereading Barbara Smith: Black Feminist Criticism and the Category of Experience." New Literary History. 24: 635-652.
Barbara Christian. 1980. Black Women Novelists: the Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
_____. 1985. Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. NY: Pergamon Press.
_____. 1989. "But Who Do You Really Belong to – Black Studies or Women's Studies?" Women's Studies. 17:17-23.
Patricia Hill Collins. 1986. "Learning from the Outsider Within: the Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought. Social Problems. 33: 14-32.
_____. 1989. "The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought." Signs. 14: 745-73.
_____. 1990. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
Combahee River Collective Staff. 1986. The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies & Eighties. Brooklyn: Kitchen Table/ Women of Color Press. Carol
Boyce Davies. 1991. "Writing off Marginality, Minoring, and Effacement. "Women's Studies International Forum. 14: 2149-263.
Angela Y. Davis. 1971. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance. NY: Third World Press.
_____. 1974. Angela Davis -- An Autobiography. NY: Random House.
_____. 1981. Women, Race, and Class. NY: Random House. (exception made for the date)
_____. 1989. Women, Culture, and Politics. NY: Random House.
Bette J. Dickerson. 1994. "Ethnic Identity and Feminism: Views from Leaders of African-American Women's Associations." pp. 97-114 in Gay Yound and Bette J Dickerson's (ed.) Color, Class, and Country: Experiences in Gender. London: Zed Books.
_____(ed.). 1995. African-American Single Mothers: Understanding their Lives and their Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1994. Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family among Black Female Domestic Servants. NY: Garland.
Ann DuCille. 1994. "The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies." Signs. 19: 591-629.
_____. 1996. Skin Trade. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press.
Karen Dugger. 1995. "Changing the Subject: Race and Gender in Feminist Discourse." pp. 138-153 in Benjamin P. Bowser's Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
M Forman. 1994. "Moving Closer to an Independent-Funk Black Feminist Theory, Standpoint, and Women in Rap." Women's Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal. 23: 35-55.
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes. 1980. "Holding Back the Ocean with a Broom: Black Women and Community Work." Pp. 217-32 in The Black Woman, edited by La Frances Rodgers-Rose. Beverly Hills: Sage. (date exception)
_____. 1982. "Successful Rebellious Professionals: The Black Woman's Professional Identity and Community Commitment. "Psychology of Women's Quarterly. 6: 289-311. (date exception)
Marita Golden. 1986. A Woman's Place. New York: Doubleday.
_____. 1992. And Do Remember Me. New York: Doubleday.
Vivian Verdell Gordon. 1987. Black Women, Feminism, and Black Liberation: Which Way?. Chicago: Third World Press.
Jean Thomas Griffin. 1990. "Black Women's Experiences as Authority Figures in Groups." Women's Studies Quarterly. 14: 7-12.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall. 1990. Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishers.
bell hooks. 1981. Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women & Feminism. Boston: South End Press. (date exception)
_____. 1989. Talking Back, Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press.
_____. 1990. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston: South End Press.
_____. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press.
_____. 1993. A Woman's Mourning Song. New York: Harlem River Press.
_____. 1993. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self- Recovery.
_____. 1994. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. New York: Routledge.
_____. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.
_____. 1995. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. NY: H. Holt and Co.
_____. 1995. Art on my mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press.
_____. 1996. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. New York: Henry Holt.
Clenora Hudson-Weems, Daphne Ntiri, and Zulu Sofola. 1993. Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. NY: Bedford.
Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (ed.) 1982. All the Women are White. All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press.
Aida Hurtado. 1989. "Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 14: 833-855.
Stanlie James (ed.) 1993. Theorizing Black Feminism: the Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women. NY: Routledge.
Delia Jarrett-Macauley. 1996. Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism: Writings on Black Women. NY: Routledge.
Gloria Joseph and Jill Lewis. 1986. Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives. Boston: South End Press.
Deborah King. 1988. "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology." Signs. 14: 42-72.
Audre Lorde. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press. (date exception)
_____. 1988. A Burst of Light: Essays. NY: Firebrand Books.
Juanita Martin and Gordon C. Nagayam Hall. 1992. "Thinking Black, Thinking Internal, Thinking Feminist." Journal of Counseling Psychology. 39: 509-514.
Deborah McDowell. 1985. "New Directions in Black Feminist Criticism." pp. 186-199 in The New Feminist Criticism, edited by Elaine Showalter. NY: Pantheon.
Toni Morrison. (ed.). 1995. Children of the Night: the Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the present. Boston: Little Brown.
Layli Phillips and Barbara McCaskill. "Who's Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of Everyday into Academe, or Why We Started The Womanist.." Signs 20: 1007-18.
Marcia Riggs. 1994. Awake, Arise, and Act: A Womanist Call for Black Liberation. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press.
Cheryl Sanders. 1992. "Afrocentrism and Womanism in the Seminary." Christianity and Crisis. 52: 123-126.
_____ (ed.). 1995. Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Ntozake Shange. 1975. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. NY: Macmillan.
Barbara Smith. 1977. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism. The Crossing Press.
Emilie Maureen Townes. 1993. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press.
_____ (ed.). 1993. A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering. Mayknoll: Orbis Books.
_____. 1995. In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
Alice Walker. 1983. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
_____. 1989. Womanist. Stillwater, ME: Nancy Leavitt.
Rovyn Warhol and Diane Herndyl (eds.). 1991. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers.
Delores Williams. 1986. "The Color of Feminism: Or Speaking the Black Woman's Tongue." Journal of Religious Thought. 43: 42-58.
____. 1993. Sisters in the Wilderness: the Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
Patricia Williams. 1991. The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press.