African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806135247 ISBN 13: 9780806135243

Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2003

Synopsis

African American women in the West have long been stereotyped as socially and historically marginal, existing in isolation from other women in the West and from their counterparts in the East and South. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore disprove this stereotype, arguing that African American women in the West played active, though sometimes unacknowledged, roles in shaping the political, ideological, and social currents that influenced the United States over the past three centuries. "African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000" is the first major historical anthology on the topic.

Contributors to this volume explore the life experiences of African American women in the West, the myriad ways in which African American women have influenced the experiences of the diverse peoples of the region, and their legacy in rural and urban communities from Montana to Texas and California to Kansas. The contributors make use of individual and collective biographies, first-person narratives, and interviews that explore what it has meant to be an African American woman, from the era of Spanish colonial rule in eighteenth-century New Mexico into the black power era of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond.

About this title

About the Author:

Quintard Taylor is Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of "In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West." Shirley Ann Wilson Moore is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of "To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963."

Review:

“A stellar collection of essays by talented authors who explore fascinating topics.”—Journal of American Ethnic History

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0806135247
• ISBN 13: 9780806135243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Taylor Quintard, Moore Shirley Ann Wilson