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Summary:

"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women's intellectual and political work at the center of today's liberation movements. Across thirteen original essays that explore the legacy and work of Black women writers and leaders--from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde--Jackson sets the record straight about Black women's longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements, despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Harriet Jacobs taught me about freedom
• Ida B. Wells taught me about radical truth telling
• Zora Neale Hurston taught me about the reclamation of our labor
• Ella Baker taught me why we should listen to young people
• Fannie Lou Hamer taught me to be unrespectable
• Shirley Chisholm taught me to hold whiteness accountable
• Toni Morrison taught me that Black women are powerful
• The Combahee River collective taught me about identity politics
• Audre Lorde taught me about solidarity as self-care
• Angela Davis taught me to be an anti-racist abolitionist
• Bell Hooks taught me how to love expansively.

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jenn M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Black women taught us: an intimate history of Black feminism [by Jackson, J.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Black women taught us [by Jackson, J.M.] (First edition; New York : Random House, [2024] — ISBN 9780593243336; LCCN 2023012455)

Subjects:

Jackson, Jenn M.

African American women political activists — History

African American feminists — History

African American women — Political activity — History

African American women — Social conditions

African Americans — Social conditions

African Americans — Civil rights — History

United States — Race relations — History

General Notes:

IIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

E185.86 .J332 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780593243343 (electronic book)
059324334X (electronic book)
9780593243336 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023012456

OCLC Numbers:

1396702804

Other Control Numbers:

3597122 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305916088