Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Edition) (Q7138)
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1983, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Edition, New York, New York 10185
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| English | Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Edition) |
1983, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Edition, New York, New York 10185 |
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HOME | GIRLS | A Black | Feminist | Anthology | Edited by | Barbara | Smith | Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press | [ornamentation] | New York
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without per- | mission in writing by the publisher. Published in the United States by | Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Inc., Post Office Box 2753, Rocke | feller Center Station, New York, N.Y. 10185.
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Copyright © 1983 Barbara Smith.
1983
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Significant copyright statement for contributors. Most if not all contributions are individually copyrighted.
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[1] "But I just get so frustrated because I feel people don't under- | stand where we came from. When I look at the photographs in | our scrapbook I ... think if they looked at the house, would | they understand better... ? Because of where we were living, | the size of the rooms... Sometimes I do wish people could just | see us in the context we grew up in, who our people are." | Beverly Smith*
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[2] For My Family | Hilda Beatrice Smith | LaRue Brown | William Beall | Beverly Smith | Mattie R. Beall | Phoebe Blassengane | Rosa Bell Smith | Adova Marie English | * "Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue," This Bridge Called My Back.
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[1]ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | I would like to acknowledge all the women who helped make | Home Girls a reality. | I thank the thirty-four contributors to Home Girls whose | words are the lifeblood of this book. | I want to express particular appreciation to Janet Kahn who | discussed with me her memories of the organizing around the | Boston murders of twelve
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[2]Black women in 1979; to Debbie | Leoni for sharing her tape of Bernice Johnson Reagon’s presen- | tation on coalition politics with me and for her patience as a | house guest while I struggled to meet a major deadline; to Jean | Bowdish for her precise transcription of the tapes for “Black | Lesbian/Feminist Organizing;” to Alex Chasin for her insightful |
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[3]copyediting, particularly of my introduction; to Ellen K. Wade | and Beverly T. Williams for their expert legal advice; and to Lor- | raine Bethel, the co-editor of Conditions: Five, The Black | Women’s Issue in which some of the work in Home Girls first | appeared. | In the process of creating a book there are always individuals who work voluntarily to see it
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[4]completed and who also provide | the support and love necessary to keep the mental health of the | author intact. I want to thank Audre Lorde for her steadfast | caring and faith in my work; Gloria T. Hull for her prayers and | her Black feminist critical intelligence; Elly Bulkin for double- |
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[5]checking every page of galleys with me and for her consistently | excellent editorial advice; and Cherríe Moraga for her sensitive | editorial help, her infinite patience, and for always being there.
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