She is the director of the digital archives project and serves as a member of the history faculty at Florida A&M University. While assigning African women to the lowest end of ugliness and White women to the highest end of beauty, White men altogether escaped serious unwarranted. Whenever a Black woman is attractive and sexy, she must be a whore.
Click here to navigate to parent product. Her contributions to publicly accessible history include work at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, The Rosa Parks Museum, and GOOGLE’s Arts & Culture series. Book Women and Inequality in the 21st Century. Kimberly Brown Pellum specializes in the history of women’s images, southern culture, and the Black Freedom Struggle.
With a terminal degree in United States History from Howard University, Dr. Illustrated by a collection of oral histories from African American women beauty contestants and winners, this presentation will unpack how pageantry has functioned as a mechanism for political activism throughout the nation’s most intense social movements and how traditional beauty standards continue to unravel as calls for social justice escalate. Here are some books on black history and experiences by black female writers.Florida’s Black Beauties: The Intersection of Politics, Protest and Pageants It is therefore important for the advancement of equity and equality in society to amplify history written by women from the perspective of women. Black history isn’t just folklore, it’s real and it’s important that we educate ourselves and our kids with the correct stories and important lessons.Īccording to research, only 0.5% of recorded history is about women’s stories. The history taught in schools is sugar-coated and not authentic with several salient aspects removed from history. Without sounding like a broken record, black history has almost been eradicated but through the stories and writings of some, we are able to preserve and understand our roots. There was a connection when reading these literary pieces as though embarking on a journey with the writer.Ī lot of our history is detailed in books, books written by writers, and stories of people – fictional or non-fictional. Some of these stories chronicled the experiences of black people, some chronicled the experiences of women. Growing up in Africa, we read stories and poems written by African authors. For some like myself, it’s also a way of escape, an outlet to release, a way to unravel.įor as long as I can remember, I’ve loved literature. Amplifying black history books written by black female writers.
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