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But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies

by · 1986

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This ground-breaking collection provides hours of enjoyment for the general reader and a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women; political theory, literary essays on major writers, guidelines for consciousness-raising about racism, and surveys of black women's contributions to the blues. "Important and innovative."—Feminist Bookstore News

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