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One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022,Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."-Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title,this bookis a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures.America, Goddamexplores the combined forceof anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir,America, Goddamrenders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. America, Goddam allows readers to understand How Black women-who have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participants-are rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. America, Goddampowerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Climbing the Hilltop: New Negro Womanhood at Howard University -- 2 Make Me Beautiful: Aesthetic Discourses of New Negro Womanhood -- 3 Performing and Politicizing "Ladyhood": Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism -- 4 Saturday at the S Street Salon: New Negro Women Playwrights -- Conclusion: Turn-of-the-Century Black Womanhood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Difference that Difference Makes -- 1 "To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize" (Excerpt) -- 2 "'There Sho' Was a Sight of Us': Enslaved Family and Community Rituals" -- 3 "The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands" -- 4 "Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants" -- 5 "Performing and Politicizing 'Ladyhood': Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism" -- 6 "'It Was the Women Who Made the Union': Organizing the Brotherhood" -- 7 "Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II" (Excerpt) -- 8 "'Black Beauticians Were Very Important': Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle" -- 9 "Organizing for Reproductive Control" -- 10 "Things Fall Apart -- the LGBT Center Holds" (Excerpt) -- List of Original Publications -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.