Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

by Deborah Gray White

Book Overview

Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also movingly illuminates black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable pull of the agendas of white women and black men. Finally, it tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039331992X
• ISBN13: 9780393319927
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"