150 Years of Defending the Humanity of Black Women
Further Readings and Some Additional Information
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell, president and vice-president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC) challenged the president of Missouri Press Association who referred to a women of African descent at thieves and prostitutes.
"Porn" by Alice Walker - Feminism and Pornography, 2000
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
The Venus Hottentot: Poems by Elizabeth Alexander
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by Deborah Gray White
Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender by Janell Hobson
New Commodities, New Consumers Selling Blackness in a Global Marketplace and From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism by Patricia Hill Collins
