"New York Times"-bestselling author Roberts takes readers deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion.
As one of the first women of colour to become a supermodel, Iman found that most makeup artists had little idea how to handle her unique skin tones. Neither did the available beauty products take into account the wide range of skin tones that defy categorization whether African, Latina, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or ethnic mixes. In both her ...
The seminal (1915) feminist utopian novel, written in an attempt to transform the role of women in American life. In Herland, there have been no men for 2000 years, freeing women to develop a humane and independent civilization. Three men happen upon Herland. One is a relentless womanizer, one a romantic who idealizes women, the third--Vandyke, ...
In the bestselling tradition of "Crowns, Queens" captures black women's passionate relationship with their hair in 50 captivating portraits and evocative essays.
After 20 years abroad, Mrs. Ranelagh returns to England intent on securing justice for "Mad Annie," a local woman who, Ranelagh is convinced, was murdered by someone who felt that the Tourettes-afflicted Annie was a distasteful nuisance. When she voiced her suspicions 20 years before, nobody believed Mrs. Ranelagh. But this time, she vows, it's ...
Mark Mathabane tells the stories of his sister Florah, mother Geli, and his grandmother. They have to cope with abuse, gambling, drunkenness, and infidelity from the men they love or have been forced to marry. All three women defy African tradition and the poverty and violence of life in a modern urban society, to make fulfilling lives for ...
"...a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." - Drew Faust. Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did ...
'With 604 full-scale biographical entries (and more than 450 photographs), the engagingly written 2,267-page work promises to become an invaluable school and library tool.' --People
Uwe Ommer, a sought-after commercial photographer based in New York and Paris, has made a name for himself with his own uncommissioned works, as this book eloquently attests. For the aesthete Uwe Ommer, the bodies of black women represent the epitome of beauty. His photographs are exactly what they show, no more and no less than a homage to female ...
From the beauty experts at "Essence" Magazine comes a must-have book for the Afro-Caribbean woman. Every woman wants to be told, "You look absolutely fabulous!" and this guide to looking your best easily shows you how. "The Essence Beauty Book" celebrates beauty both on the inside and the outside, and provides step-by-step advice to the best hair, ...
Gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. In "Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848", Bernard Moitt advances this argument by detailing and analysing the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French ...
This collection of prayers will take readers on an enchanting journey into the spiritual walk of women of color from China, Brazil, Africa, North America, and elsewhere around the world. Through these prayers, poetry, lyrics, meditations, and affirmations, the reader will share in the strong and undeniable connection women of color share with God. ...
For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy" - a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting persistent and deep-seated patterns of racial discrimination and inequality. Yet, ...
From Governor General's Award-winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintergration of her marriage and an eccentric elderly father on an ...
From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist comes a refreshing look at women and the Mommy wars. Beneath the surface, Parker is a woman on the verge of a breakdown trying to navigate the complex waters of being a woman in the modern world.
The first book of its kind, "In the Company of My Sisters" has tapped into a wellspring of interest, need, and excitement in the African-American community and turned Julia Boyd into a national figure. Drawing on Boyd's work as a therapist and an educator, this empowering book provides "practical, hilarious, and common-sense advice for self-care ...
This series is a tribute to women in Africa and the African diaspora from the ancient past to the present. This first volume weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and travelers' tales from Egypt to Southern Africa, from prehistory to the 19th century. These women rulers, warriors and ...
Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary black women. These intensely personal testimonies illuminate the complexities of black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, and recovery. Author ...
Sharp chronicles the trials and triumphs of black women throughout history, addresses the challenges African women have overcome, and the influences they have had on food and fashion, politics and poetry. Illustrations. Glossary.
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged. ...
In "Castaway" Yvette Christiansen presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte's final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet's grandmother. Amid echoes of racialised identity and issues of displacement, the poems in "Castaway" speak ...
This timely self-help guide teaches women how to use prayer, meditation, and affirmations to tap the wisdom and power of God's spirit within. It also instructs black women on how to harness the wisdom and power of the spirit to assist them on the job, in marriage and other relationships, and in handling crisis situations.
A sequel to CLARA'S HEART, this story is told from four points of view: Will Kaplan in Vermont, whose neighbor, Marie--the mother of Will's old lover, Peter--has disappeared; Peter, in California; Marie herself; and the eponymous Clara, Will's family's old housekeeper, whom he calls to Vermont to help him find Marie.
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