Women's Studies and Black Studies Journal

Volume 1, Number 1

Inaugural Issue/Spring 2007

The State of Black Women's Studies

Table of Contents

From the Editors

Jennifer F. Hamer, Editor

Elizabeth Cole, Rhonda Y. Williams, and Sharon Harley, Associate Editors

African American Women and Their Communities in the Twentieth Century: The Foundation

and Future of Black Women's Studies

By Darlene Clark Hine

Building a Home for Black Women's Studies

By Elizabeth Cole and Nesha Z. Haniff

Where's the Violence? The Promise and Perils of Teaching Women of Color Studies

By Grace Chang

Popular Sentiments and Black Women's Studies: The Scholarly and Experiential Divide

By Catherine Squires

Love and Violence / Maternity and Death: Black Feminism and the Politics of Reading (Un)representability

By Sara Clarke Kaplan