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Black Women in White America | Everett Hoagland Working Library

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Book Details
Editor: Gerda Lerner
Title: Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
Publisher: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Year: 1973
Edition: Vintage Books Edition, February 1973
Binding: Trade Paperback
Language: English
ISBN: 0-394-71880-1

Description

Edited by pioneering historian Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America: A Documentary History is one of the landmark documentary collections chronicling the experiences, voices, and struggles of Black women in American history. Drawing upon letters, speeches, memoirs, legal documents, journalism, and other primary sources, Lerner presents a powerful historical record spanning slavery, Reconstruction, civil rights, labor, education, family life, and political activism.

Originally published in 1972, this influential anthology helped establish Black women's history as a distinct field of scholarship and remains an important reference in African American studies, women's history, social history, and gender studies.

This copy is a Random House Professor's Review Copy, distributed for academic review prior to classroom adoption.

Condition

Trade paperback. Very Good. Binding remains square and sound. Covers show light shelf and handling wear consistent with age. Interior clean and unmarked. Publisher's Random House Professor's Review Copy band remains present.

Collection History

This volume was acquired as part of the Everett Hoagland Working Library, obtained directly from the library preserved by Thomas Doane Perry and Karen Carmean Perry. Although this copy bears no individual ownership signature, stamp, or bookplate, it formed part of the larger scholarly library assembled by award-winning poet, educator, and New Bedford's first Poet Laureate Everett Hoagland (1942–2025).

As a foundational work in African American history and Black women's studies, the volume reflects the broad literary and historical interests represented throughout Hoagland's working library.