Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and...
History Politics gender studies
My main problem with this book was how it read like a text book. Honestly, it felt like I was back in history class getting ready to hear about the women who helped win the war. This would have been a very compelling powerpoint presentation but I did feel that it was monotonous.
I loved the concept of the book, unfortunately I felt like I was reading a text book.
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