Suggested Readings
- Berry, Daina Ramey. “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe”: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
- Blair, Cynthia. I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Brooks, Siobhan. Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry. New York: State University of New York Press, 2010.
- Brown, Leslie. Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
- Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Chateauvert, Melinda. Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
- Chatelain, Marcia. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
- Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics and the Great Migration. New York: Kodansha International, 1996.
- Collier Thomson, Bettye and V. P. Franklin eds. Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movements. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
- Davies, Carole Boyce. Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
- Davis, Angela. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Random House, 1981.
- Feimster, Crystal. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Feldstein, Ruth. Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Gore, Dayo F. Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
- Gore, Dayo F., Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard, eds. “Want to Start a Revolution?” Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
- Gray, LaGuana. We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
- Green, Venus. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
- Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.
- Gill, Tiffany M. Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
- Glymph, Thavolia, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Gross, Kali. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
- Haley, Sarah. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
- Harley, Sharon, and the Black Women and Work Collective, eds. Sister Circle: Black Women and Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
- Harris, LaShawn. Sex Workers, Psychics and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
- Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Hicks, Cheryl. Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890–1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Hine, Darlene Clark. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
- Holsaert, Faith S. et al. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
- Honey, Maureen, ed. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
- Hunter, Tera. To “’Joy My Freedom”: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
- James, Joy. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
- Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women Work, On the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
- Kornbluh, Felicia. The Battle For Welfare Rights: Politics And Poverty in Modern America. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
- Korstad, Robert Rodgers. Civil Right Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
- LeFlouria, Talitha, L. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Press, 2015.
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Levenstein, Lisa. A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- Mcguire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Race, and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- Miller-Young, Mireille. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
- Millward, Jessica. Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
- Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- Nadasen, Premilla. Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. New York: Beacon Press, 2006.
- Painter, Nell. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
- Payne, Charles. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
- Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Richards, Yevette. Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
- Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meanings of Liberty. New York: Vintage, 1997.
- Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Saville, Julie. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870. New York: Cambridge, 1994.
- Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
- Sharpe, Christina. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
- Shaw, Stephanie. What a Women Ought to Be and Ought to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Sharpless, Rebecca. Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Sherwood, Marika. Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1999.
- Simmons, LaKisha. Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Taylor, Megan Shockley. “We, Too, Are Americans”: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–1954. University of Illinois Press, 2003.
- Theoharis, Jeanne. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.
- Washington, Margaret. Sojourner Truth’s America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
- White, Deborah G. Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: Norton, 1999.
- Williams, Rhonda Y. The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequalities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Wolcott, Victoria. Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.