Foreword
Nellie McKay
Preface: Sisters in a Circle
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historical Overview of Black Women and Work
Sharon Harley
Francille Rusan Wilson
Shirley Wilson Logan
Part 1 - Work It Sista!
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace
Taunya Lovell Banks
Flying the Love Bird and Other Tourist Jobs in Jamaica: Women Workers in Negril
A. Lynn Bolles
"Working for Nothing but for a Living": Black Women in the Underground Economy
Sharon Harley
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mothering, Work, and Welfare in the Rural South
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Tallese Johnson
Getting Paid: Black Women Economists Reflect on Women and Work
Rhonda M. Williams
Part 2 - Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand
"Don't Let Nobody Bother Yo' Principle": The Sexual Economy of American Slavery
Adrienne Davis
"And We Claim Our Rights": The Rights Rhetoric of Black and White Women Activists before the Civil War
Carla L. Peterson
"What Are We Worth": Anna Julia Cooper Defines Black Women's Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Shirley Wilson Logan
"All of the Glory... Faded... Quickly": Sadie T.M. Alexander and Black Professional Women, 1920-1950
Francille Rusan Wilson
A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930-1950
Melinda Chateauvert
Part 3 - Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes
Declaring (Ambiguous) Liberty: Paule Marshall's Middle-Class Women
Mary Helen Washington
Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and Our Work
Deborah Willis
Part 4 - Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise
Labor above and beyond the Call: A Black Woman Scholar in the Academy
Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
When the Spirit Takes Hold, What the Work Becomes!
Judi Moore Latta
About the Contributors
Index
