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Home girls : a Black feminist anthology / edited by Barbara Smith.

40th Anniversary edition.

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2023.

lxx, 434 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package."

African American women.

African American women -- Literary collections.

Feminism -- Literary collections.

Feminism -- United States.

Smith, Barbara, 1946- editor.

Originally published: New York : Kitchen Table--Women of Color Press, c1983. With new preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition / Barbara Smith -- Preface to the first Rutgers University Press Edition / Barbara Smith -- Introduction / Barbara Smith -- Poem / Akasha (Gloria) Hull

For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love / Toi Derricotte -- The Damned / Toi Derricotte -- Hester's Song / Toi Derricotte -- The Sisters / Alexis De Veaux -- Debra / Michelle T. Clinton -- If I Could Write This in Fire, I would Write This In Fire / Michelle Cliff -- The Blood -- Yes, The Blood: A Conversation / Cenen and Barbara Smith -- Something Latino Was Up With Us / Spring Redd -- I Used to Think / Chirlane McCray -- The Black Back-Ups / Kate Rushin -- Home / Barbara Smith

"Under The Days": The buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimk / Akasha (Gloria) Hull -- The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview / Ann Allen Shockley -- Artists Without Art Form / Renita Weems -- I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands / Patricia Jones -- A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women / Jewelle L. Gomez -- What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara'sThe Salt Eaters / Akasha (Gloria) Hull

Tar Beach, Audre Lorde Before I Dress and Soar Again / Donna Allegra -- LeRoy's Birthday / Raymina Y. Mays -- The Weddin / Barbara Smith -- Maria de las Rosas / Becky Birtha -- Miss Esther's Land / Barbara A. Banks -- The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community / Cheryl Clarke -- Where Will You Be? / Pat Parker

Selected Photographas

Among the Things That Used to Be / Willie M. Coleman -- From Sea to Shining Sea / June Jordan -- Women of Summer / Cheryl Clarke -- The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman / Kate Rushin -- Shoes Are Made for Walking / Shirley O. Steele -- Billy de Lye / Deirdre McCalla -- The Combahee River Collective Statement / Combahee River Collective -- Black Macho and Black Feminism / Linda C. Powell Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation / Tania Abdulahad, Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed -- For Strong Women / Michelle T. Clinton -- The Black Goddess / Kate Rushin -- Women's Spirituality: A Household Act / Luisah Teish -- Only Justice Can Stop a Curse / Alice Walker -- Coalition Politics: Turning the Century / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Acknowledgments Information on Contributors

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