Research Catalog

Title

Nature of a sistuh : Black women's lived experiences in contemporary culture / edited by Trevy McDonald and T. Ford-Ahmed.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonald, Trevy Ann.
• Ford-Ahmed, T.

Description

xix, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Nature of a sister

Subject

• African American women
• Racism > United States
• African American women in the professions > United States
• African American women teachers > United States
• African American women executives > United States
• African Americans and mass media
• African American women > Social conditions
• Feminism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Giving the sistuhs their due : the lived experiences of African-American women in academia / Janice D. Hamlet -- Defining essence in the public image of a Black woman : the lived experiences of a law professor / Karen Strother-Jordan -- Reclamation and discoveries : an African-American women's historian's efforts to chronicle the experiences of African-American women teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-1983 / Sonya Ramsey -- A chance of double lives : phenomenological study of Black female graduate experience / Priya Kapoor -- Corporeal explosions : the lived experiences of African-American graduate women during an explosive week / T. Ford-Ahmed -- She works hard for her money : the experiences of African-American women in the workplace / Pamela Y. Dikes -- Metaphors for negotiating work and family : Black professional working mothers' dual roles / Audrey Curtis Hane -- There's always a line of separation : the figuring of race, gender, and class in the construction of corporate identities / Jeanne L. Porter -- Journeys in African-American womanhood : emerging community-oriented spirituality / Brigitte Rouson -- Aunt Hagar's daughters : three women in the neo-Pentecostal tradition / Deborah A. Austin -- Of grace and glory : African-American women clergy and their sermons / Vanessa Wynder Quainoo -- The more they change, the more they remain the same : representations of African-American womanhood on Living single / Katrina E. Bell -- Tired of the world according to young men's machismo : Black women's reactions to representations of Black women in music videos / Trevy A. McDonald -- Discourse on Disney : bibliographic references & women playing the life of The Lion King / Adwoa X. Muwzea -- Lead on with light : a phenomenology of leadership as seen in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Jeanne L. Porter -- Lessons in Black feminist pedagogy : Ernest Gaines' A lesson before dying and the transformation of pedagogy / Doris Yaa Dartey -- Self-definition and silence : Black feminist thoughts and August Wilson (scattered thoughts for a work in progress) / R. Goldman Vander.

Call Number

Sc E 99-708

ISBN

0890898596 (pbk.)

LCCN

98088954

OCLC

40733943

Title

Nature of a sistuh : Black women's lived experiences in contemporary culture / edited by Trevy McDonald and T. Ford-Ahmed.

Imprint

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McDonald, Trevy Ann.

Ford-Ahmed, T.

Research Call Number

Sc E 99-708