Introduction: Historical Overview of Black Women and Work
1
(12)
Sharon Harley
Francille Rusan Wilson
Shirley Wilson Logan
PART 1 Work It Sista!
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace
13
(16)
Taunya Lovell Banks
Flying the Love Bird and Other Tourist Jobs in Jamaica: Women Workers in Negril
29
(19)
A. Lynn Bolles
``Working for Nothing but for a Living'': Black Women in the Underground Economy
48
(19)
Sharon Harley
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mothering, Work, and Welfare in the Rural South
67
(17)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Tallese Johnson
Getting Paid: Black Women Economists Reflect on Women and Work
84
(19)
Rhonda M. Williams
PART 2 Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand
``Don't Let Nobody Bother Yo' Principle'': The Sexual Economy of American Slavery
103
(25)
Adrienne Davis
``And We Claim Our Rights'': The Rights Rhetoric of Black and White Women Activists before the Civil War
128
(18)
Carla L. Peterson
``What Are We Worth'': Anna Julia Cooper Defines Black Women's Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
146
(18)
Shirley Wilson Logan
``All of the Glory...Faded...Quickly'': Sadie T. M. Alexander and Black Professional Women, 1920--1950
164
(20)
Francille Rusan Wilson
A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930--1950
184
(15)
Melinda Chateauvert
PART 3 Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes
Declaring (Ambiguous) Liberty: Paule Marshall's Middle-Class Women
199
(19)
Mary Helen Washington
Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and Our Work
218
(13)
Deborah Willis
PART 4 Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise
Labor above and beyond the Call: A Black Woman Scholar in the Academy
231
(23)
Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
When the Spirit Takes Hold, What the Work Becomes!
254
(19)
Judi Moore Latta
About the Contributors
273
(6)
Index
279
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