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For despite the range and significance of our history, we have been perceived as token women in Black texts and as token Blacks in feminist ones.

Paula Giddings

Black women survived the rigors of slavery to demand the rights of their race and of their sex. They rose above the most demeaning forms of labor and demanded to be called by their last names. Black women forged humane communities out of rough settlements. They converted the rock of double oppression into a steppings tone.

Paula Giddings

Paula Giddings

Paula Giddings

Born: 1947 (age 78)

Bio: Paula Giddings is a writer and an African-American historian. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood.

Known for:

When and Where I Enter (1984)
In search of sisterhood (1988)
Ida: A Sword Among Lions (2008)
Regarding Malcolm X (1994)

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