Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Young Adult showing other women how to

showing other women how to do the same

Publication Date: June 15

Social justice writer and activist Regina Kent is usually cautious and savvy

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Young Adult showing other women how toFrom one of this countrys most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds