Black Women in High Management Positions

Introduction

As the principal editor for three of the largest projects in Black women's history, Darlene Clark Hine has helped to define Black women's history. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History engages the reader in its wide-ranging discussions of slavery, migration, professions, and community service. Hine practices a particularly felicitous sort of hindsight in the introduction, which offers a frank and engaging analysis of her own development as a scholar. She has both revised and revisited her essays, providing the reader with a candid assessment of how she and the field have grown over the last decade and a half. (Wilson, 1996)

In Hine's self-critical account, the past literally had to thrust itself upon her in the form of a demand by Shirley Herd, an Indiana schoolteacher, that Hine write a history of Black women in the state from materials assembled by Herd and Black clubwomen. Hine was not especially interested in either Black women's history or becoming a historian for hire, but Herd would have none of it. Hine's 1979 article on Black women's slave resistance helped to launch an ongoing discussion of Black women and rape, sexualized oppression, and sexual resistance. Rape and its societal consequences would continue as an important theme in Hine's writings. Perhaps more importantly for the future development of Black women's history, Hine has always resisted simple explanations for complex behaviors and strategies. Her three policy essays on Black and women's history are marked with a generosity of spirit often lacking among contestants in either arena. A comprehensive bibliography of Hine's published works would have been useful. A recent article of Hine's which describes the process of crafting the Black Women in America is not in Hine Sight, or her new edited volume discussed below, but there will surely be further collections of her writings

When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents,Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended racist and sexist attitudes--often confronting white feminists and black male leaders alike--to initiate social and political reform. From the open disregard for therights of slave women to examples of today's more covert racism and sexism in civil rights and women's organizations, Giddings illuminates the black woman's crusade for equality. In the process, she paints unforgettable portraits of blackfemale leaders, such as anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, educator and FDR adviser Mary McLeod Bethune, and the heroic civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, who fought both overt and institutionalized oppression.

Black Women as CEO

There one time was a time in American annals when the considered of women employed for convoluted, multi-national expertise businesses, monster advocating companies, and huge announcing dwellings was snickered at behind shut boardroom doors. For the couple of women who have come to the largest ranks, they'd favour not to converse about their gender. To them it's no longer ...