african american women

An autobiography of early twentieth-century American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston that describes her rise from poverty in the rural South to prominence among the leading artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

Emma Lou Brown, a victim of prejudice inside and outside the African-American community because of her very dark skin, moves from her home in Idaho to New York's Harlem in the 1920s, hoping to find acceptance.

Presents fourteen modern critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery, raised by a physically and verbally abusive single mother on the south side of Chicago, assumes her life will follow the same course as the other women she sees around her, but a visit from her beautiful and free-spirited Aunt Jewel, and a budding relationship with Rasul, lead her to hope for more, even after she accidently becomes pregnant.

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

A poem that presents the powerful spirit of Black women the world over. Includes eighty-four portraits of ordinary African American women.

A survey of the trials and accomplishments of African-American women, from the days of slavery in the American colonies through the civil rights movement of the twentieth century.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Examines the life and career of television personality and media magnate, Oprah Winfrey.

A biography of the fashion model, who has also become involved in acting and community service activities.