Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition : : A Black Feminist Anthology / / ed. by Barbara Smith.

• MitwirkendeR: Abdulahad, Tania,; Allegra, Donna,; Banks, Barbara A.,; Birtha, Becky,; Cenen,; Clarke, Cheryl,; Cliff, Michelle,; Clinton, Michelle T.,; Coleman, Willi (Willie) M.,; De Veaux, Alexis,; Derricotte, Toi,; Gomez, Jewelle L.,; Hull, Akasha (Gloria),; Johnson Reagon, Bernice,; Jones, Patricia Spears,; Jordan, June,; Lorde, Audre,; Mays, Raymina Y.,; McCalla, Deidre,; McCray, Chirlane,; Parker, Pat,; Powell, Linda C.,; Redd, Spring,; Rogers, Gwendolyn,; Rushin, Kate,; Shockley, Ann Allen,; Smith, Barbara,; Smith, Beverly,; Steele, Shirley O.,; Teish, Luisah,; Waheed, Jameelah,; Walker, Alice,; Weems, Renita J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.) :; 12 B-W images

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the Rutgers University Press Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Poem -- The Blood-Yes, the Blood -- For a Godchild, Regina, on the Occasion of Her First Love -- The Damned -- Hester's Song -- The Sisters -- Debra -- If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire -- The Blood-Yes, the Blood: A Conversation -- Something Latino Was Up with Us -- I Used to Think -- The Black Back-Ups -- Home -- Artists without Art Form -- "Under the Days": The Buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké -- The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview -- "Artists without Art Form": A Look at One Black Woman's World of Unrevered Black Women -- I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands -- A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women -- What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters1 -- Black Lesbians-Who Will Fight for Our Lives but Us? -- Tar Beach -- Before I Dress and Soar Again -- LeRoy's Birthday -- The Wedding -- Maria de las Rosas -- Miss Esther's Land -- The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community -- Where Will You Be? -- A Home Girls' Album -- Selected Photographs -- A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution -- Among the Things That Use to Be -- From Sea to Shining Sea -- Women of Summer -- The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman -- Shoes Are Made for Walking -- Billy de Lye -- The Combahee River Collective Statement -- Black Macho and Black Feminism -- Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation -- For Strong Women -- The Black Goddess -- Women's Spirituality: A Household Act -- Only Justice Can Stop a Curse -- Coalition Politics: Turning the Century -- List of Credits -- Notes on Contributors -- About the Editor