Bitter fruit
African American women in World War II
by Maureen Honey
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"Despite the participation of African American women in all aspects of home-front activity during World War II, advertisements, recruitment posters, and newsreels portrayed largely white women as army nurses, defense plant workers, concerned mothers, and steadfast wives. This sea of white faces left for posterity images such as Rosie the Riveter, obscuring the contributions that African American women made to the war effort."--BOOK JACKET.
"Traditional anthologies of African American literature jump from the Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s with little or no reference to the decades between those periods. Bitter Fruit not only illuminates the literature of these decades but also presents an image of black women as community activists that undercuts gender stereotypes of the era."--BOOK JACKET.
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Women, World War, 1939-1945, African American women, History, Afro-American women, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Femmes, Noires américaines, Histoire, Military, World War IIPlaces
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Bitter fruit: African American women in World War II
1999, University of Missouri Press
in English
0826212425 9780826212429
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and indexes.
Chiefly material reprinted from The crisis, Opportunity, Negro digest, and Negro story.
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