... in that way; in still other cases, they rage as their women, in thrall to the devil, grow cold to the touch or transfer their feelings to some other man. Artists covered include Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Skip James, and Sonny Boy Williamson, along with Bessie Smith, Koko Taylor, and other black women...

...The epilogue explores the aftermath of war in the 1920s. Emphasizing the diversity of American women, the epilogue notes the inability of white women to find common cause with black women activists as well as the growing strength of right wing conservative women who challenged reformers...

... police officers’ discretionary power to target Black women. By the end of 1961, liberal legal reforms in California effectively decriminalized straight, nonmarital sex. But morals law reform took shape in the postwar context of rapidly segregating urban neighborhoods and the aggressive police...

... numbers of Black women onto historically white downtown streets. Black women became oversignified with sexual deviance and violent criminality.The development of the AED experiment and the raced and gendered crime panic posed unique challenges and opportunities for the Boston Police Department (BPD...

... and chapters to follow. Evidence Georgia Georgia Prison Commission the Innocence Johnson Emma Milledgeville State Prison Farm Murder Sanford Vince Walker Lula Captivity Domestic servants Henry W M Parole Release Self defense black women’s acts of Southern carceral regime the Southern punishment...

...This chapter focuses on Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and how she belonged to a generation of black women intellectuals who have been trained, for the most part, outside of black institutions. However, unlike many of her contemporaries, who remained in mainstream institutions, Terborg-Penn chose to teach...

...This book begins with a description of how Anna Julia Cooper and Lucy Cox both struggled to be understood as women of intelligence and vision. Their differing positions, however, shaped how they voiced their grievances regarding the treatment of black women in America. Cooper, born into slavery...

...This chapter focuses on the ways in which working-class black women constructed their own narratives and the kinds of details they chose to reveal about their sexual experiences. In early-twentieth-century New York, a moral panic about working-class female sexuality shaped the agenda of urban...

... Brown Jacqueline Nassy hierarchization entrepreneurship African Americans African Diaspora Roots Tourism Diaspora Tourism Afro-Brazilians Blackness Black identity Black women tourists Gendered diaspora Gendered tourism The healing process brings us to Brazil and to Africa and to other...

...This chapter examines the black community's moral outrage against police brutality involving sexual assaults in postwar Memphis and its major ramifications for the politics of racial justice. It discusses how police sexual assaults of black women galvanized African Americans and put race, manhood...

... DeFontaine Georgia Faust Drew Gilpin Lindsay Lucy Sherman William Tecumseh blockade runners children black Columbia South Carolina cotton displaced persons enslaved women North Carolina Sherman’s army Gen William T Sherman slave coffles Oswald Anna B Sarah paternalism refugees black women...

... to maintain the vision of New South prosperity while negotiating the female felons' place within the state's convict lease system. Thus, Southern entrepreneurs had been forced to regulate their industrial aspirations to accommodate a growing public and political desire to see black women prisoners moved...

...This chapter begins by exploring the gendered intersection of betrayal, infidelity, antiblack violence, and state terror in the historical memory of 1844. Alongside the trope of duplicity, the most pervasive theme of black women's involvement in this and other slave movements is their silence...

... kitchen table as symbol Kelley Joan music and freedom songs southern US Gleason Flavia King Deborah National Negro Health Week Washington Booker T Huggins Erica capitalism critiques of poverty Activism Black agrarianism Black women Mothering Othermothering Pedagogy Black agrarianism...

...This essay provides a critical historiography of the role that Black women have played in the food justice movement to further amplify voices that have been silenced in cooking spaces and food justice writing. As a part of telling this history, the author uses storytelling, including her own...

...This final chapter synthesizes the chapters in each of the three sections and provides an analysis of how these chapters underscore the importance of Black women’s voices within global food systems. Often, Black women’s voices are silenced and relegated to the “kitchen table,” or domestic labor...

... for interracial rape, and black women victims saw little to no justice in the aftermath of white male sexual violence against them. In response, activists launched local campaigns nationwide in defense of black women victims, demanding justice. Likewise, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund pursued...

...The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements, and the consequences of elevating women...

... salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies, to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. The book argues that because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these scripted historical experiences, the tours...

..., medical screenings, educational opportunities that prioritized racial pride and civic engagement. Head Start also offered Mississippi’s black working-class women jobs as preschool teachers. These jobs, independent of the local white power structure, gave black women the financial freedom to vote and send...