Still Brave: Legendary Black Women on Race and Gender

Still Brave is a monumental book that reminds us of the centrality of Black Womanist genius and talent grounded in courage and struggle. We can never understand what it means to be modern, new world, or African without this precious volume. -Cornel West, author of Race Matters

Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker-from the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today. Including Alice Walker’s groundbreaking elucidation of the term womanist, discussions of women’s rights as human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection speaks to the ways that feminism has evolved and how black women have confronted racism within it.