Table of Contents

Foreword
    Nellie McKay
Preface: Sisters in a Circle
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historical Overview of Black Women and Work
    Sharon Harley
    Francille Rusan Wilson
    Shirley Wilson Logan
Part 1 - Work It Sista!
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace
    Taunya Lovell Banks
Flying the Love Bird and Other Tourist Jobs in Jamaica: Women Workers in Negril
    A. Lynn Bolles
"Working for Nothing but for a Living": Black Women in the Underground Economy
    Sharon Harley
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mothering, Work, and Welfare in the Rural South
    Bonnie Thornton Dill
    Tallese Johnson
Getting Paid: Black Women Economists Reflect on Women and Work
    Rhonda M. Williams
Part 2 - Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand
"Don't Let Nobody Bother Yo' Principle": The Sexual Economy of American Slavery
    Adrienne Davis
"And We Claim Our Rights": The Rights Rhetoric of Black and White Women Activists before the Civil War
    Carla L. Peterson
"What Are We Worth": Anna Julia Cooper Defines Black Women's Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
    Shirley Wilson Logan
"All of the Glory... Faded... Quickly": Sadie T.M. Alexander and Black Professional Women, 1920-1950
    Francille Rusan Wilson
A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930-1950
    Melinda Chateauvert
Part 3 - Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes
Declaring (Ambiguous) Liberty: Paule Marshall's Middle-Class Women
    Mary Helen Washington
Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and Our Work
    Deborah Willis
Part 4 - Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise
Labor above and beyond the Call: A Black Woman Scholar in the Academy
    Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
When the Spirit Takes Hold, What the Work Becomes!
    Judi Moore Latta
About the Contributors
Index

About the Author

SHARON HARLEY is an associate professor and chair of the African American studies department at the University of Maryland.

Reviews

"Sister Circle offers a powerful evocation connecting the personal experiences of Black women scholars to the historical struggles of Black women workers."
*Nancy A. Hewitt*

"Sister Circle offers a powerful evocation connecting the personal experiences of Black women scholars to the historical struggles of Black women workers."
*Nancy A. Hewitt*