When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

&#8220History at its best–clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject&#8221–Toni Morrison

Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Giddings’s When and Where I Enter is not only an eloquent testament to the unsung contributions of individual women to our nation, but to the collective activism which elevated the race and women’s movements that define our times. From Ida B. Wells to the first black Presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm; from the anti-lynching movement to the struggle for suffrage and equal protection under the law; Giddings tells the stories of black women who transcended the dual discrimination of race and gender–and whose legacy inspires our own generation. Forty years after the passing of the Voting Rights Act, when phrases like &#8220affirmative action&#8221 and &#8220wrongful imprisonment&#8221 are rallying cries, Giddings words resonate now more than ever.

Author: Paula J. Giddings
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 02/27/2007
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780688146504
Language: English