When and Where I Enter. The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984. 1st Edition. Octavo, publishers speckled cream cloth over blue paper-covered boards, spine gilt, charcoal endpapers, original printed dust jacket.
Advance review copy of Black historian and activist Paula Giddingss landmark history of Black womens political and social activism in the US. Drawing on speeches, letters, diaries, and other archival sources, When and Where I Enter positions Black women at the center of American political history, tracing their roles in abolition, suffrage, anti-lynching work, civil rights, and feminism. The title is taken from Anna Julia Coopers 1892 declaration that when a Black woman enters in the full dignity of her womanhood, "then and there the whole race enters with me." The book helped establish Giddings as a major authority on Black womens history, leading to her position as a professor emerita of Africana Studies at Smith College. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic frontispiece and reproductions; with notes, a bibliography and an index. Dust jacket designed by Honi Werner. Publishers advance review slip and prmotional newsletter laid in. First printing with complete number row to copyright page. Unclipped dust jacket with minor toning, else fine. Item #13098
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