Research Catalog

Title

African American women speak out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas / edited by Geneva Smitherman.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-

Description

276 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

An essential voice has been added to the ongoing national debate and public discourse on race, class, and gender. African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas is the first commentary on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation written exclusively by African American women. Margaret Walker Alexander, Angela Y. Davis, Darlene Clark Hine, Harriette McAdoo, Julianne Malveaux, and other scholars and writers offer reflections and in-depth analyses on one of the most wrenching public dramas in recent history. Diverse and interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions clarify the significance of the event and examine the broader ramifications for the African American community and the nation.

Series Statement

African American life series

Uniform Title

African American life series

Subject

• Hill, Anita
• Thomas, Clarence, 1948-
• USA Supreme Court
• African American women
• Sexual harassment of women > United States
• Sex role > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• On the turning up of unidentified black female corpses / Toi Derricotte -- Statement of Anita F. Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- Statement of Clarence Thomas to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- Where I'm coming from / Barbara Brandon -- Observations of a journalist on the wretched spectacle / Susan Watson -- A righteous rage and a grassroots mobilization / Barbara Ransby -- Social and political thought on Anita Hill from the feminist and black communities : the scapegoat and the sacrificial lamb / Patricia Coleman-Burns -- Whose "boy" is this? / Margaret Walker Alexander -- High-tech lynching on Capitol Hill : oral narratives from African American women / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis -- Imaging lynching : African American women, communities of struggle, and collective memory / Elsa Barkley Brown --
• (cont.) The circling of the wagons : the odyssey of Anita Hill / Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- Faults in the movement : the end of one era and the beginning of another / Dianne M. Pinderhughes -- Anita at the battle of the Bush : Thomas on the hill : dark town strutters ball / Nettie Jones -- Making sense of our differences : African American women on Anita Hill / Beverly Grier -- The year of the woman or the woman of the year : was there really an "Anita Hill effect"? / Julianne Malveaux -- For pleasure, profit, and power : the sexual exploitation of black women / Darlene Clark Hine -- Clarence Thomas as lynching victim : reflections on Anita Hill's role in the Thomas confirmation hearings / Angela Y. Davis --
• (cont.) Of metaphors and meaning : language, ways of knowing, memory holes, and a politic recall / Linda Susan Beard -- A forensic psychiatrist reflects on sexual harassment / Rosalind B. Griffin -- The tongue or the sword : which is master? / Denise Troutman-Robinson -- Testifyin, sermonizin, and signifyin : Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the African American verbal tradition / Geneva Smitherman -- Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the crisis of black political leadership / Linda F. Williams -- Where I'm coming from / Barbara Brandon.

ISBN

0814325300 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94048645^

OCLC

• 32018119
• SCSB-10228576

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library