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James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https://archive.org/details/isbn_978155861 61 1 "Faculty and students at all levels of higher education; community activists; policy- makers; and those just plain curious to read the very best scholarship on race and gender will welcome the publication ofthis volume.James, Foster, and Guy-Sheftall have put together a political, creative, truly interdisciplinary anthology. They have crafted a narrative of BlackWomen's Studies over the past twenty-five years that will sustain the field in the twenty-first century.They are to be congratulated." — Claire G. Moses, editorial director of FeministStudies and professor ofWomen's Studies, University of Maryland "Radiant with intellectual energy, this sequel to But Some of Us Are Brave will be as indispensable to Women's Studies scholars of every race, age, ethnicity, and theo- retical orientation as its precursor was.The writers whose classic and contemporary essays are collected here address an exhilarating range of multidisciplinary and multicultural issues, from religion to sexuality to the history of Black feminist criti- — — cism including a closing riffon the Obama daughters and Pecola Breedlove with verve, wit, passion, and sophistication. — Sandra M. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of California, Davis "First Lady Michelle Obama embodies both the dearest hopes and deepest fears of so many African American women. Her fierce advocacy for her children, the power of her embodied self, her broad appeal to Americans ofall races and classes suggest the realization of a Black feminist dream. But the essays in Still Brave remind us of the fraught terrain on which First Lady Obama stands.They demonstrate how Black women must remain "nice girls"or risk being swiftly punished by an American pub- lic with little familiarity with or respect for the diverse, authentic realities of Black women. The authors of Still Brave allow us to glimpse this stunning diversity of Black women's lives across differences of age, color, class, sexual orientation, and religious belief.They illuminate the social and political context, meanings, and burdens that frame Black women's lives.They open space for politically meaningful anger, push back against rigid norms of respectability, and map the contributions of African American women's unique and varied perspectives. In short the book is courageous, necessary, and exquisitely edited. It is a true whom testament to the scholar to it is dedicated. — Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of Politics and African American Studies, Princeton University JAN 1 2 20!0 I The Combahee River Collective Cheryl Clarke Alice Walker Audre Lorde bell hooks Elsa Barkley Brown Deborah K. King Barbara Ransby Michael Awkward Jacquelyn Grant Barbara Christian NikoIG.Alexander-Floyd Evelyn M. Simien Monica A. Coleman Ann Patricia Hill Collins Paula Giddings duCille Angela Y. Davis Cassandra Shaylor Adrienne Davis Cathy Cohen Evelynn J. M. Hammonds Josephine Beoku-Betts Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi Lorraine O’Grady Men Farah Jasmine Griffin Black for the Eradication of Sexism Joy James June Jordan StanlieM.James Carole Boyce Davies Violet Eudine Barriteau Cheryl A. Wall THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK WOMEN'S STUDIES StanlieM. James Frances Smith Foster Beverly Guy-Sheftall Editors THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Published in 2009 by the Feminist Press at the City University ofNew York The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 Introduction copyright © 2009 by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall Selection and compilation copyright © 2009 by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall Copyright information for individual selections begins on page 441, which constitutes a continuation ofthis copyright page. All rights reserved. Publication ofthis book was made possible, in part, by funds from the Ford Foundation. — 13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data — Still brave / edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. 1st ed. cm. p. ISBN 978-1-55861-611-0 1. African American women. 2. Feminism. 3. Feminist theory. 4. Women, Black I. James, Stanlie M. (Stanlie Myrise) II. Foster, Frances Smith. III. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. E185.86.S765 2009 305.48’896073—dc22 2009029454 For Nellie Y. McKay CONTENTS Introduction xi Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall O THE WAY WE WERE A Black Feminist Statement 3 The Combahee River Collective Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance 12 Cheryl Clarke Womanist 22 Alice Walker The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 23 Audre Lorde Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory 31 bell hooks Women African American in Defense of Ourselves 45 Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah K. King, and Barbara Ransby A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism 47 Michael Awkward Q CALL MY NAME I Womanist Theology: Black Women's Experience as a Source for Doing Theology, with Special Reference to Christology 67 Jacquelyn Grant 5 — But Who Do You Really Belong To Black Studies or Women's Studies? 86 Barbara Christian Revisiting "What's in a Name?": Exploring the Contours of Africana Womanist Thought 92 Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd and Evelyn M. Simien Must Be Womanist? 115 I Monica A. Coleman When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism 27 1 Patricia Hill Collins BODY AND SOUL HD The Last Taboo 157 Paula Giddings Phallus(ies) of Interpretation: Toward Engendering the Black Critical "I" 1 72 Ann duCille Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond 192 Angela Davis and Cassandra Shaylor Y. "Don't Let Nobody Bother Yo' Principle": The Sexual Economy of American Slavery 21 Adrienne Davis Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? 240 Cathy Cohen J. AIDS the Secret, Silent, Suffering Shame 268 Evelynn M. Hammonds IV "What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics 283 Elsa Barkley Brown
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