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Title: More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Blacks in the Diaspora) by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine ISBN: 0-253-21043-7 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: a continuation of my last review
Comment: Strike those last three sentences, I am very tired and finishing a 20 page paper. I have no idea why I decided to up and review this book in this state. I must be suffing from starbucks poisoning or something. the editors do incorporate a variety of opinions of both genders and do an excellent post modern job of it to boot. Sorry there.
I would also like to review this frapachino I got for free a few hours ago. It was cold and caffinated, but did not have enough "mocha" for my taste.
Rating: 3
Summary: collections are always hit and miss
Comment: A diverse variety of essays on black women in slavery that covers America's perculiar institution from its inception to shortly after the Civil War. The book is seeking to create a fuller picture of the lives of African American women during this time but is constantly fighting within itself over exactly what picture is. It has a difficult time simultaneously representing black women as empowered individuals with their own culture and as victims of a vicious system that presses unwanted physical and cultural contact on them. Some of the essays are poorly written and obviously missing key elements in their focused attempt to prove their argument, others are superbly written and try to account for as many aspects of culture as is possible. One particularly enlightening essay is "Africa to the Americas?" by Claire Robertson, in which she debunks a number of widely spouted partial truths about African culture that Americanists often use to justify gender relations among slaves. Another essay, Wilma King's "Suffer With Them Till Death" is absolutely awful. Its thesis seems to be that slave mothers loved their children and it begins with the well-duh line, "Slave parents had unusually heavy responsibilities."
Despite the fact that the essays argue among themselves and are sometimes hit and miss, the attempt to display a wide variety of opinion of behalf of the editors is a valiant one that only fails by the fact that all the essays are by women. In one sense, this is quite understandable as most of the scholarship on the subject has been done by women. In another sense, I would have liked to see more diverse authors and since several pieces were written precisely for the book, it would have been easy it seems to request on for the sake of diversity.
Not a light read, but the opinions are diverse enough that it is an excellent source to prove your thesis no matter what your argument on gender during slavery might be.
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Title: Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla M. Fett, Sharla Fett ISBN: 080785378X Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 06 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race by Maxine Leeds Craig ISBN: 019515262X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South by Catherine Clinton, Michele Gillespie ISBN: 0195112431 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 by Bernard Moitt ISBN: 0253214521 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ar'N't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White ISBN: 0393314812 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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