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A --±.i ...... MSMHHHMBHi ister Circle Edited by Sharon Harley and the The Black Women and Work Collective $ Foreword by Nellie Y. McKay Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/sistercircleOOrutg BUSINESS INFORMATION CENTER /A PR 14 2003 Sister Circle ' WQl, h . ^ wr^f p^SCARDED F "p \ ■ if THE Off * of ~DllECTION ‘*klahd Sister Circle Black Women and Work EDITED BY Sharon Harley AND The Black Women and Work Collective WITH A FOREWORD BY NELLIE Y. McKay RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sister circle : Black women and work / edited by Sharon Harley and the Black Women and Work Collective, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8135-3060-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8135-3061-X (pbk : alk. paper) 1. African American women—Employment—History—Sources. 2. African American women— Interviews. I. Harley, Sharon. II. Black Women and Work Collective. HD6057.5U5 S576 2002 331.4'089'96073—dc21 2001048613 British Cataloging-in-Publication information is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2002 by Rutgers, The State University Individual chapters copyright © 2002 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechan¬ ical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Manufactured in the United States of America To Professor Rhonda M. Williams, 1957-2000 Sister Scholar/Political Economist Extraordinaire Contents Foreword ix Nellie Y. McKay Preface: Sisters in a Circle xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: Historical Overview of Black Women and Work 1 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 Taunya Lovell Banks Flying the Love Bird and Other Tourist Jobs in Jamaica: Women Workers in Negril 29 A. Lynn Bolles “Working for Nothing but for a Living”: Black Women in the Underground Economy 48 Sharon Harley Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mothering, Work, and Welfare in the Rural South 67 Bonnie Thornton Dill Tallese Johnson Getting Paid: Black Women Economists Reflect on Women and Work 84 Rhonda M. Williams • • Vll Contents part 2 ■ Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand “Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle”: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery 103 Adrienne Davis “And We Claim Our Rights”: The Rights Rhetoric of Black and White Women Activists before the Civil War 128 Carla L. Peterson “What Are We Worth”: Anna Julia Cooper Defines Black Womens Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 146 Shirley Wilson Logan “All of the Glory . . . Faded . . . Quickly”: Sadie T. M. Alexander and Black Professional Women, 1920-1950 164 Francille Rusan Wilson A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930-1950 184 Melinda Chateauvert part 3 ■ Women’s Work through the Artist’s Eyes Declaring (Ambiguous) Liberty: Paule Marshall’s Middle-Class Women 199 Mary Helen Washington Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and Our Work 218 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 Marilyn Mobley McKenzie When the Spirit Takes Hold, What the Work Becomes! 254 Judi Moore Latta About the Contributors 273 Index 279
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