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6. The Realisms of Elizabeth Catlett 121
Kirstin L. Ellsworth
PART III: BLACK WOMEN INTELLECTUALS
IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS–BLACK POWER ERA
7. “Sounding the Trumpet”: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and the
Civil Rights Movement in the North 139
Hettie V. Williams
8. Pauli Murray: The Life of an American Intellectual 167
Kenya Davis-Hayes
9. Wanda Coleman and Los Angeles: Reading Postmodern
America from the Eye of the Cyclone 185
Charles Joseph
10. “Pro Black Women, Yet Anti No One”: Black Women
Intellectuals and the National Alliance of Black Feminists 205
Voichita Nachescu
PART IV: BLACK WOMEN INTELLECTUALS
IN THE POST–CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
11. bell hooks: Resistance Writing Beyond the Academy 229
Ewa Kleczaj-Siara
12. “At the Core of the Broken Fruit”: On Audre Lorde’s
Self-Definitions and the Critical Deployment of the
Dahomey/Yoruba Lore 245
J. Edgar Bauer
PART V: BLACK WOMEN INTELLECTUALS
IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
13. She Who Could Never Be “Just” Anything: Toni
Morrison, an American Intellectual 267
Marquis Bey
14. African American Women in the Public Square:
Admiral Michelle Howard 287
Melissa Ziobro
About the Editor and Contributors 307
Index 311
