WOMEN OF COLOR
by Bernice Redfern
Adapted from the "Women of Color" Core List, the Association of College and Research Libraries Women's Studies Section, with permission of the Section.
January 2000
This list is limited to titles on women of color in the United States. Emphasis in on overview texts and useful anthologies. All titles are found in the 1999/2000 BOOKS IN PRINT.
The list is sorted in alphebetical order by author.
E184.A1 V7 1999. Yolanda Alaniz and Nellie Wong, eds. VOICES OF COLOR. Seattle: Red Letter Press, 1999.
E98.W8 A439 1991. Paula Gunn Allen, GRANDMOTHERS OF THE LIGHT: A MEDICINE WOMAN'S SOURCEBOOK. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
PS3551.L435 O38 1998. Paula Gunn Allen, OFF THE RESERVATION: REFLECTIONS ON BORDER-BUSTING, BORDER-CROSSING LOOSE CANONS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
E98.W8 A44 1986. Paula Gunn Allen, THE SACRED HOOP: RECOVERING THE FEMININE IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
PS508.I5 S64 1990. Paula Gunn Allen, SPIDER WOMAN'S GRANDDAUGHTERS: TRADITIONAL TALES AND CONTEMPORARY WRITING BY NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Fawcett, 1990.
HQ1410 .A46 1991. Teresa L. Amott and Julia A. Mattaei, RACE, GENDER, AND WORK: A MULTICULTURAL ECONOMIC HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE U.S. Rev. ed. Boston: South End Press, 1996.
E184.A1 A673 1996. Karen Anderson, CHANGING WOMAN: A HISTORY OF RACIAL ETHNIC WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
E185.97.A56 A3 1971. Maya Angelou, I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. New York: Bantam, 1970.
PS3551.N96 B67 1987. Gloria Anzaldua, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA: THE NEW MESTIZA. . San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987. (2nd ed coming soon)
PS509.F44 M35 1990. Gloria Anzaldua, ed. MAKING FACE, MAKING SOUL/HACIENDA CARAS: CREATIVE AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BY FEMINISTS OF COLOR. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1990.
PS509.M6 D6 1991. Patricia Bell-Scott, ed. DOUBLE STITCH: BLACK WOMEN WRITE ABOUT MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.
HQ1154 .F55 1998. Patricia Bell-Scott, ed. FLAT FOOTED TRUTHS: TELLING BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
E184.S75 B58 1997. Irene I. Blea, U.S. CHICANAS AND LATINAS WITHIN A GLOBAL CONTEXT. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1997.
E185.86 .C5817 1998. Patricia Hill Collins, FIGHTING WORDS: BLACK WOMEN AND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
E184.S69 P38 1998. Shamita Das Dasgupta, ed. PATCHWORK SHAWL: CHRONICLES OF SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN AMERICA. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
E185.86 .D36 1983. Angela Y. Davis, WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS. New York: Random House, 1983.
HQ1410 .U54 2000. Ellen Carol DuBois and Vickie Ruiz, eds. UNEQUAL SISTERS: A MULTICULTURAL READER IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2000.
HQ1185 .U57 1996. Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis and Michele Foster, eds. UNRELATED KIN: RACE AND GENDER IN WOMEN'S PERSONAL NARRATIVES. New York: Routledge, 1996.
HQ1421 .C52 1997. Alma M. Garcia and Mario Garcia, eds. CHICANA FEMINIST THOUGHT: THE BASIC HISTORICAL WRITINGS. New York: Routledge, 1997.
E185.86 .G49 1996. Paula Giddings, WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER: THE IMPACT OF BLACK WOMEN ON RACE AND SEX IN AMERICA. New York: HarperTrade, 1996, c1984.
E185.86 .S6 1996. Marita Golden and Susan R. Shreve, eds. SKIN DEEP: BLACK WOMEN AND WHITE WOMEN WRITE ABOUT RACE. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
E184.E2 E64 1999. Sangeeta R. Gupta, ed. EMERGING VOICES: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN REDEFINE SELF, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira/Sage, 1999.
E185.86 .H68 1998. Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, A SHINING THREAD OF HOPE: HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
PS153.A84 H6 1999. Wendy Ho, IN HER MOTHER'S HOUSE: THE POLITICS OF ASIAN-AMERICAN MOTHER-DAUGHTER WRITING. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 1999.
E185.86 .H77. Bell Hooks, AIN'T I A WOMAN: BLACK WOMEN AND FEMINISM. Boston: South End Press, 1981.
E185.97.H77 A3 1996. Bell Hooks, BONE BLACK: MEMORIES OF GIRLHOOD. New York: Holt, 1996.
E185.86 .H74 1989. Bell Hooks, TALKING BACK: THINKING FEMINIST, THINKING BLACK. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
E185.86 .H742 1990. Bell Hooks, YEARNING: RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURAL POLITICS. Boston: South End Press, 1990.
E184.7 .A44. Gloria T. Hull, Barbara Smith, and Patricia Bell Scott, eds. ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE. New York: Feminist Press, 1981.
HQ1421 .H87 1996. Aida Hurtado, THE COLOR OF PRIVILEGE: THREE BLASPHEMIES ON RACE AND FEMINISM. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
E185.86 .J35 1999. Joy James, SHADOWBOXING: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK FEMINIST POLITICS. New York: St. Martins, 1999.
HD6057.5.U5 J66 1986. Jacqueline Jones, LABOR OF LOVE, LABOR OF SORROW: BLACK WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY FROM SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT. New York: Random House, 1986. Write for information.
E98.W8 W657 1995. Laura F. Klein and Lilian A. Ackerman, WOMEN AND POWER IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
PS3562.I4592 Z8 A6 1996. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES: AN ASIAN-AMERICAN MEMOIR OF HOMELANDS. New York: Feminist Press, 1996.
PS153.A84 F66 1989. Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Mayumi Tsutakawa, eds. FORBIDDEN STITCH: AN ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ANTHOLOGY. Corvalis, OR: Calyx Books, 1988.
PS153.C45 L56 1990. Amy Ling, BETWEEN WORLDS: WOMEN WRITERS OF CHINESE ANCESTRY. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.
E185.86 .N379 1999. Trevy McDonald and T. Ford-Ahmed, eds. NATURE OF A SISTUH: BLACK WOMEN'S LIVED EXPERIENCES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
GR111.M49 M37 1992. Patricia Preciado Martin, ed. SONGS MY MOTHER SANG TO ME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1992.
PS508.W7 T44. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1984.
KF8745.T48 R33 1992. Toni Morrison, ed. RACE-ING JUSTICE, EN-GENDERING POWER: ESSAYS ON ANITA HILL, CLARENCE THOMAS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL REALITY. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
E185.86 .M945 1997. Leith Mullings, ON OUR OWN TERMS: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Routledge, 1997.
E98.W8 N53. Carolyn Niethammer, DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH: THE LIVES AND LEGENDS OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
E185 .O456 1994. Barbara Omolade, THE RISING SONG OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Routledge, 1994.
E184.M5 R86 1998. Vicki L. Ruiz, FROM OUT OF THE SHADOWS: MEXICAN WOMEN IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
E185.86 .W555 1996. Kathy Russell and Midge Wilson, DIVIDED SISTERS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BLACK WOMEN AND WHITE WOMEN. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
E185.86 .S695 1998. Yanick St. Jean, DOUBLE BURDEN: BLACK WOMEN AND EVERYDAY RACISM. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
E98.W8 A54 1999. Marjorie M. Schweitzer, ed. AMERICAN INDIAN GRANDMOTHERS: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
HQ1426 .D845 1997. Sonia Shah, ed. DRAGON LADIES: ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINISTS BREATHE FIRE. Boston: South End Press, 1997.
PS509.F44 H65 1983. Barbara Smith, ed. HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
E185.86 .S635 1998. Barbara Smith, THE TRUTH THAT NEVER HURTS: WRITINGS ON RACE, GENDER AND FREEDOM. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
PN1995.9.N4 S62 1998. Valerie Smith, NOT JUST RACE, NOT JUST GENDER: BLACK FEMINIST READINGS. New York: Routledge, 1998.
E98.W8 S65 1998. Liz Sonneborn, A TO Z OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
E185.86 .S766 1999. Kimberly Springer, ed. STILL LIFTING, STILL CLIMBING: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
E185.86 .B58 1995. Marie Kim Vaz, ed. BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994.
PS3573.A44 Z8 I5 1983. Alice Walker, IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS GARDENS. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
E185.86 .W34 1990. Michele Wallace, BLACK MACHO AND THE MYTH OF THE SUPERWOMAN. New York: Verso, 1990.
PS153.A84 O97 1993. Women of the South Asian Descent Collective, ed. OUR FEET WALK THE SKY: WOMEN OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1993.
E184.O6 M24 1989. Diane Yen-Mei Wong, ed. MAKING WAVES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
HQ1421 .W63 1994. Maxine B. Zinn and Bonnie Thorton Dill, eds. WOMEN OF COLOR IN U.S. SOCIETY. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
Bernice Redfern
San Jose State University
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