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by Darlene Clark Hine (Author)
"The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of importance." --from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin
"In this absolutely needed collection of essays by one of the leading American historians of our generation, the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon." --Susan M. Reverby, Luella LaMer Associate Professor for Women's Studies, Wellesley College
Author Biography
DARLENE CLARK HINE, John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 among many other publications and is the editor of the award-winning Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
