Stepping Forward : Black Women in Africa and the Americas.

Intro -- Maps -- Tables -- Introduction -- Part One: Gender, Education, and Segregation -- Chapter One British Colonial Policy toward Education and the Roots of Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896-1961 -- Chapter Two Agency and Constructions of Professional Identity -- Part Two: Image and Substance -- Chapter Three The Search for Anna Erskine -- Chapter Four Image and Representation -- Part Three: Grassroots Activism -- Chapter Five Helping Ourselves -- Chapter Six African American Clubwomen and the Indianapolis NAACP, 1912-1914 -- Part Four: Systems of Thought, Modes of Resistance -- Chapter Seven Witchcraft,Women, and Taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930-1963 -- Chapter Eight "Mwen na rien, Msieu" -- Part Five: Migration -- Chapter Nine No Place to Call Home -- Chapter Ten "The Sisters and Mothers Are Called to the City" -- Part Six: Religion and Spirituality -- Chapter Eleven Mai Chaza and the Politics of Motherhood in Colonial Zimbabwe -- Chapter Twelve Standing Their Ground -- Part Seven: Civil War and Civil Rights -- Chapter Thirteen Gender and Political Struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 -- Chapter Fourteen "The lady folk is a doer" Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi Emilye Crosby -- Part Eight: Women's Voices -- Chapter Fifteen Strategies for Survival by Luo Female Artists in the Rural Environment in Kenya -- Chapter Sixteen Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey -- Part Nine: Decolonizing Black Women -- Chapter Seventeen Owning What We Know -- Chapter Eighteen Decolonizing Culture -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

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