Författare: Darlene Clark Hine

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Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black wom …

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to thi …

Essays exploring Black women’s experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were expl …

’ . . . pioneering. . . . This history, as Hine vividly depicts it, sheds light on the development of African-American professionals and offers as well the opportunity to analyze the intersection of …

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change …

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection pe …

The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American inno …

Inspired by the University of Illinois’s celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision’s fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors’ lives …

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter’s throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on histor …