"Reconstructs the history of black women's participation in
western settlement"
" "A stellar collection of essays by talented authors who
explore fascinating topics."--Journal of American Ethnic
History"
"African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000" is the
first major historical anthology on the topic. The editors argue
that African American women in the West played active, though
sometimes unacknowledged, roles in shaping the political,
ideological, and social currents that have influenced the United
States over the past three centuries.
Contributors to this volume explore African American women's
life experiences in the West, their influences on the experiences
of the region's diverse peoples, and their legacy in rural and
urban communities from Montana to Texas and from California to
Kansas. The essayists explore what it has meant to be an African
American woman, from the era of Spanish colonial rule in
eighteenth-century New Mexico to the black power era of the 1960s
and 1970s.
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