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black women motherhood
african american women journalist*
women film* directors
black women composers

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African American Women in the News by Marian Meyers
Call Number: MCK STACKS PN1992.8.A34 M49 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube.
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
Call Number: MCK STACKS PN1998.2 .H86 2007
Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite significant. In this guide to their careers and films, author Mary Hurd profiles the most noteworthy
I Got Thunder by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (Editor)
Call Number: Performing Arts Library STACKS ML390 .B255 2007
In this often fascinating, nostalgic, and thoroughly moving collection of 20 interviews, author LaShonda Katrice Barnett offers a rare glimpse into the careers of the world's prominent black women performing singers and songwriters. Marking an unprecedented exploration of the musical styles and careers of twenty black women performing songwriters, I Got Thunder represents practically all genres-folk, jazz, neo soul, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, and traditional blues. Barnett's interviews are accompanied by brief biographies and selected discographies for each of the influential artists included.
Indie Reframed: women's filmmaking and contemporary American independent cinema by Linda Badley (Editor); Claire Perkins (Editor); Michele Schreiber (Editor)
Call Number: MCK STKS PN1993.5.U6 I53 2016
This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the 'difference' of female indie filmmaking. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the 'in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed.
Laboring positions : black women, mothering and the academy by Nzinga-Johnson, Sekile
Call Number: MCK STKS LB2332.3 .L32 2013
Laboring Positions aims to disrupt the dominant discourse on academic women s mothering experiences. Black women s maternity is assumed, and yet is also silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, racist, antifamily, and increasingly neoliberal work environment of academia. This volume acknowledges the salience of the institutional challenges facing contemporary caregiving academics; yet it is centrally concerned with expanding the academic mothering conversation by speaking against the private/public spheres approach. Laboring Positions does so by privileging the hybridity between Black women s mothering experiences and their working lives within and beyond the academy.
Raising the Race: Black career women redefine marriage, motherhood, and community by Riché J. Daniel Barnes
Call Number: MCK STKS HD6054.2.U6 B37 2016
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to ""have it all"", raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this subject, there has been little work that focuses on the experience of African American professional women or asks how their perspectives on work-family balance might be unique. Raising the Race is the first scholarly book to examine how black, married career women juggle their relationships with their extended and nuclear families, the expectations of the black community, and their desires to raise healthy, independent children.