"This past was waiting for me when I came": the contextualization of Black women's history.

From: Feminist Studies | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Many historians have found it difficult to use contextualization to analyze Afro-American women's history. However, six new books have been able to effectively use the contextualization approach to analyze Afro-American women's history. These books make extensive use of oral and written personal accounts which are correlated to the time periods in which they were written.

i am accused of tending to the past/as if i made it./ as if i sculpted it/with my own hands. i did not./ this past was waiting for me when i came, . . . - Lucille Clifton, "I am accused of tending to the past," 1991

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