"We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free
Location
King Building 339
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-28-2017 4:30 PM
End Date
4-28-2017 5:50 PM
Abstract
This paper investigates the life and writing of Evelyn C. White, a previously unexamined figure in the scholarship of Black feminism of the twentieth century. She is the author of Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985), Black Women’s Health Book (Seal Press, 1990), and Alice Walker: A Life (W. W. Norton, 2004). In White’s three major works, she addresses a different aspect of, what she referred to as, Black women’s “unexamined pain.” Without White, history lacks a storyteller whose life has illuminates the opportunities, obstacles, and imagination involved in creating a world where Black women are free.
Keywords:
archive, black feminism, journalism, biography, narrative
Recommended Citation
Shevin, Natalia, ""We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free" (04/28/17). Senior Symposium. 65.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2017/presentations/65
Major
History
Award
Leah Freed Memorial Prize
Advisor(s)
Renee Romano, History
Project Mentor(s)
Renee Romano, History
April 2017
"We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free
King Building 339
This paper investigates the life and writing of Evelyn C. White, a previously unexamined figure in the scholarship of Black feminism of the twentieth century. She is the author of Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985), Black Women’s Health Book (Seal Press, 1990), and Alice Walker: A Life (W. W. Norton, 2004). In White’s three major works, she addresses a different aspect of, what she referred to as, Black women’s “unexamined pain.” Without White, history lacks a storyteller whose life has illuminates the opportunities, obstacles, and imagination involved in creating a world where Black women are free.
Notes
Session III, Panel 15 - Black | Authorship
Moderator: Gillian Johns, Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies