Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

"Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."—Akilah Monifa, EmergeToo Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also movingly illuminates black women's painful struggle to hold their racial and gender identities intact while feeling the inexorable p...