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Title: Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace ISBN: 1859842968 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
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Summary: Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
Comment: I read this book when it was originaaly published in 1976. Although Michele Wallace was a relatively young black woman (still in her twenties as I remember)I was most impressed by the maturity of her insights regarding both black men and black women. Her intent seemed to be to point out areas that both genders needed to look at if the race as a whole was to make any progress.
In both sections of her book, Wallace focused our attention on "male privilege" and how it translated into black "macho-ness", with the resultant effect that black men are as guilty of taking for themselves unearned advantages over black women as white people are guilty of taking for themselves unearned advantages over black people. She pointed out that black women continued to nurture the race physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and that the convenience of the self-sacrificing "superwoman image" (which black women willingly accept) allowed the predominatly male leaders of the civil rights movement to discount the interests and issues of black women, much like white slaveholders did; the typical black superwoman served only as an ancillary utility for black men. Wallace revealed to the world that black women, more often than not, were still "sleeping with the enemy."
Wallace was virulently attacked by almost every black "leader" who could get herself (yes, even women) and himself heard. However, if you re-read the book today, you cannot deny the fact that she was prescient in her observations and conclusions. The problems which she identified then still exist today.
I would recommend this book as a basic text for every black women's college. It should be discussed whereever concerned black people convene.
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Title: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Perspectives on Gender (New York, N.Y.).) by Patricia Hill Collins ISBN: 0415924847 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde ISBN: 0895941414 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks ISBN: 089608129X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: November, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Johnnetta Betsch Cole ISBN: 1565842561 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: BLACK BOURGEOISIE by Franklin Frazier ISBN: 0684832410 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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