Book Review: African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000

Authors

Michael Lansing, Utah State University

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

This collection chronicles the longstanding and diverse experiences of African American women across the regional West through a series of essays by leading western historians. Together, they bring new depth to a subject often ignored. On issues ranging from race relations to labor relations and from working-class as well as upper-class perspectives, the volume carefully reconstructs and considers the role of black women in varied western contexts.