Black Women, Gender & Families:
A New Women's Studies & Black Studies Journal
Inaugural Issue/Spring 2007
Volume 1, Issue 1
www.bwgf.uiuc.edu
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
BWGF is an official publication of the National Council for Black Studies.
BWGF is an interdisciplinary, biannual journal. The editors welcome research and theoretical submissions in history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, education, economics, political science, and English that are framed by Black Women's Studies perspectives and a policy or social analysis. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational studies of the African Diaspora and other women, families, and communities of color are also encouraged.
