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December 3rd 2012: Do Black Women Impact the USA? How?
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Who dares, in today’s racial environment, to openly talk about the African-American woman? Is there such a person as the ‘Strong Black Women’? What does that mean? Some say it’s not good for the future of families, while others admire and applaud it as survival. What impact has she driven and influenced? Is there really anything remarkably different about the histories of Black women in the USA? Has she been pushed into the shadows of history without us knowing the real impact? Is there an attraction to her by White and other males that may be responsible for a whole lot of ‘race mixing’?
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Paula Giddings
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Paula Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Afro-American Studies, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, editor of Meridians, feminism, race, transnationalism, a peer-review journal by Smith College and published by University of Indiana Press. She authored four books: When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America; In Search of Sisterhood, Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement; Burning All Illusions, (editor) an anthology on race published by the Nation magazine; and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography and deemed one o
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