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This was required reading for an undergraduate seminar I took and I can say, purchasing this book instead of renting it was one of the best decisions I made. I very much appreciate the focus on African American/Black American women’s voices and the historically richness provided. It beautiful portrays the costs our foremothers paid for the privileges we have today.

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4.0

A powerful gathering of the words of black women in the U.S., fighting for their own liberation. The essays begin in the 1830s and continue through 1995. I would love to read a second volume for the quarter century since then.

I'm so grateful I get to live in a world where there is strong and vibrant intersectional feminist thought and action. And it only exists because of people like this.

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5.0

I keep starting and deleting this review, because all the superlatives I try sound empty and cliched. It is great, though. Really great. And inspiring, and infuriating, and lots of other adjectives. Well-selected essays, a broad range of authors -- some well-known, many not -- and a nicely managed progression. Also, Tracye Matthews is there, which makes most things about 15% better no matter the context.

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