When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984) by Paula Giddings

Description

Writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou have acclaimed Paula Giddings’s When and Where I Enter as not only an eloquent testament to the contributions of individual women to U.S. heritage, but to the collective activism which elevated the race and women’s movements that define our times.

From Ida B. Wells to the first Black Presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm; from the anti-lynching movement to the struggle for suffrage and equal protection under the law; Giddings tells the stories of Black women who transcended the dual discrimination of race and gender―and whose legacy inspires our own generation.

Forty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, when phrases like “affirmative action” and “wrongful imprisonment” are rallying cries, Giddings words resonate now more than ever.

About the Author

Paula Giddings is a professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. She has written for the Washington Post, New York Times, and Essence, among other publications. She currently lives in New York City and Hadley, Massachusetts.