African American women in the West have long been stereotyped as socially and historically marginal; existing in isolation from other women in the West and from their counterparts in the East and South. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore disprove this stereotype; arguing that African American women in the West played active; though sometimes unacknowledged; roles in shaping the political; ideological; and social currents that influenced the United States over the past three centuries. "African American Women Confront the West; 1600-2000" is the first major historical anthology on the topic. Contributors to this volume explore the life experiences of African American women in the West; the myriad ways in which African American women have influenced the experiences of the diverse peoples of the region; and their legacy in rural and urban communities from Montana to Texas and California to Kansas. The contributors make use of individual and collective biographies; first-person narratives; and interviews that explore what it has meant to be an African American woman; from the era of Spanish colonial rule in eighteenth-century New Mexico into the black power era of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond.
#2244590 in Books University of Oklahoma Press 1984-05-15 1984-05-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .73 x 5.50l; .84 #File Name: 0806122382279 pages
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