Sister citizen : shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America /
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger -- these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
New Haven : 2011. |
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Table of Contents:
- "The hurricane," from Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
- "The Bridge poem" / Kate Rushin
- Crooked room
- Myth
- "Resisting the shame of Shug Avery," from The color purple / Alice Walker
- Shame
- Disaster
- "No mirrors in my Nana's house" / Sweet Honey in the Rock, lyrics by Ysaye Maria Barnwell
- Strength
- God
- "Praise song for the day" / Elizabeth Alexander
- Michelle.