Book
Home girls : a Black feminist anthology
Publication Information
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2000'
Physical Description
lx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed - or not - since the book was first published.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Kitchen Table--Women of Color Press, 1983. With new preface.
Contents
- Poem / Akasha (Gloria) Hull
- For a godchild, Regina, on the occasion of her first love / Toi Derricotte
- The damned / Toi Derricotte
- Hester's song / Toi Derricotte
- The sisters / Alexis De Veaux
- Debra / Michelle T. Clinton
- If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire / Michelle Cliff
- The blood--yes, the blood: a conversation / Cenen and Barbara Smith
- Something Latino was up with us / Spring Redd
- "I used to think" / Chirlane McCray
- The black back-ups / Kate Rushin
- Home / Barbara Smith
- "Under the days": the buried life and poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké / Akasha (Gloria) Hull
- The black lesbian in American literature: an overview / Ann Allen Shockley
- Artists without art form / Renita Weems
- I've been thinking of Diana Sands / Patricia Jones
- A cultural legacy denied and discovered : black lesbians in fiction by women / Jewelle L. Gomez
- What it is I think she's doing anyhow: a reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters / Akasha (Gloria) Hull
- Tar beach / Audre Lorde
- Before I dress and soar again / Donna Allegra
- LeRoy's birthday / Raymina Y. Mays
- The wedding / Beverly Smith
- Maria de las Rosas / Becky Birtha
- Miss Esther's land / Barbara A. Banks
- The failure to transform: homophobia in the black community / Cheryl Clarke
- Where will you be? / Pat Parker
- Among the things that use to be / Willie M. Coleman
- From sea to shining sea / June Jordan
- Women of summer / Cheryl Clarke
- The tired poem: last letter from a typical unemployed black professional woman / Kate Rushin
- Shoes are made for walking / Shirley O. Steele
- Billy de Lye / Deidre McCalla
- The Combahee River Collective statement / Combahee River Collective
- Black macho and black feminism / Linda C. Powell
- Black lesbian/feminist organizing: a conversation / Tania Abdulahad, Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed
- For strong women / Michelle T. Clinton
- The black goddess / Kate Rushin
- Women's spirituality: a household act / Luisah Teish
- Only justice can stop a curse / Alice Walker
- Coalition politics: turning the century / Bernice Johnson Reagon.