Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (Blacks in the Diaspora Series) » (1st Edition)

DARLENE CLARK HINE, John A. Hannah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890—1950 among many other publications and is the editor of the award-winning Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

"The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of importance." — from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin

"In this absolutely needed collection of essays by one of the leading American historians of our generation, the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon." — Susan M. Reverby, Luella LaMer Associate Professor for Women's Studies, Wellesley College