Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Myths of Black Womanhood
A Century Ago: The Foundations of Sexism-Racism
The Age of Jim Crow: White and Black Stories of Slave Women
The All-Mother Vision of W. E. B. Du Bois
Slave Women of the Sociological Imagination
Prefabricated Women of the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Invisible, Shrinking Woman
Black Studies/Women's Studies: Discovering Black Women's History?
Rediscovering the Black Family: New and Old Images of Motherhood
Toward Discovering Slave Women
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

PATRICIA MORTON is Associate Professor in the History Department at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. Her previously published journal articles include, among others: From Invisible Man to 'New People': The Recent Discovery of the American Mulatto, The New Police Historiography, 'My Ol' Black Mammy' in American Historiography, and Southern Women.

Reviews

?It is a provocative and compelling book. In just over 150 pages, Patricia Morton surveys a vast body of historical and sociological writing to explore how black women have been treated by this 'literature of fact.'?-Canadian Journal of History

"It is a provocative and compelling book. In just over 150 pages, Patricia Morton surveys a vast body of historical and sociological writing to explore how black women have been treated by this 'literature of fact.'"-Canadian Journal of History