Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton

by Duchess Harris

Book Overview

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Harris demonstrates that Black women have tried to gain centrality through their participation in Presidential Commissions, Black feminist organizations, theatrical productions, film adaptations of literature, beauty pageants,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230613306
• ISBN13: 9780230613300
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"