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Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told.This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered rel

"This book highlights significant contributions of African American women in education, their successes and challenges in the human sciences/family and consumer sciences profession, and the impact of historically Black colleges and universities throughout American history"--

Feeling, and Deeply: A Source of Knowledge -- Testifying: An Introduction -- Oh! Isn't It Wild? -- I want to Be Totally Free: Maya's Testimony -- It's Just Easier to Fuck: Sekile's Testimony -- A Barefoot Girl Howling at the Moon: Val's Testimony -- Since I am Divine and I am Feminine, It Is All Me: Lakeesha's Testimony -- Talking to the Sugar Canes: What My Gran Taught Me about Seeing Myself.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction African American Women Redefining Activism for the Millennium -- Part I African American Women's Political Voices -- Chapter One Barbara Smith A Home Girl with a Mission -- Chapter Two To Be Young, Female, and Black -- Chapter Three Four Mission Statements -- Part II Our Continuous Struggle Activism Born of the 1960s Era -- Chapter Four "Triple Jeopardy" Black Women and the Growth of Feminist Consciousness in SNCC, 1964-1975

"For generations female slaves have played prominent roles throughout American history, but more than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context of slavery in this country from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War"--Provided by publisher

This monument traces African-American history from the Middle Passage, to the fight for freedom in the Civil War, the struggle for civil rights and emergence into mainstream America. Among the 12 scenes are images that depict a family on the auction block, slaves working in a rice field, men and women celebrating the Emancipation proclamation, the Jim Crow era, the Northern migration, and images of African Americans today pioneering in such fields as engineering, law education, sports, politics and space exploration. At the base of the monument's obelisk are four rubbing stones from regions of Africa where slaves were captured - Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo and Ghana.)

An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful livelihood improvements for Africa's smallholder farmers and pastoralists. It could drive greater engagement in agriculture from women and youth and create employment opportunities along the value chain. At CTA we staked a claim on this power of digitalisation to more systematically transform agriculture early on. Digitalisation, focusing on not individual ICTs but the application of these technologies to entire value chains, is a theme that cuts across all of our work. In youth entrepreneurship, we are fostering a new breed of young ICT 'agripreneurs'. In climate-smart agriculture multiple projects provide information that can help towards building resilience for smallholder farmers. And in women empowerment we are supporting digital platforms to drive greater inclusion for women entrepreneurs in agricultural value chains. ; European Union ; Internal Review