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This neglect of black women is discussed by Mary Berry in the foreword of a book on black women’s studies with the particularly appropriate titleAll the Women Are While, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. (Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1982).
See, for example, Phyllis Wallace,Black Women in the Labor Force (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980). There is the research by Claudia Goldin exploring historical precedents for the racial differences in labor force participation rates, “Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870-1880,”Journal of Economic History 16 (Summer 1983): 39–48; and Julie Matthaei in her bookAn Economic History of Women in America (New York: Schoken Books, 1982) stresses that the experiences of black women were different from those of white women.
Paula Giddings,When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (New York: Morrow, 1984); and Jacqueline Jones,Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1985).
E. Franklin Frazier as quoted in Giddings, p. 253.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor, March 1965. Reprinted in Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey,The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967).
A remark made by Olivia Davidson, second wife of Booker T. Washington, to Alabama school teachers, as quoted in Giddings, p. 99.
Fannie Barrier Williams as quoted in Giddings, p. 97.
Julie Matthaei devotes a chapter of her book, op. cit., to the cult of domesticity.
Nannie Helen Burroughs, founder of the National Training School for Girls in Washington, D.C., as quoted in Giddings, p. 102.
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Conrad, C.A. Book Reviews. The Review of Black Political Economy 14, 63–70 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02689874
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