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Black Women's Lives

Stories of Power and Pain



Kristal Brent Zook
February 2006     ISBN: 1560257903

Kristal Brent Zook has spent the past decade traveling across America, interviewing and building relationships with a diverse array of African-American women: a farmer in Vermont, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, a catfish worker and union organizer in Mississippi, an AIDS activist in Florida, a New York City corporate executive, and inmates in a Seattle prison.

This innovative book tells of heartbreak and triumph, courage and pain. It offers an insightful look not just at African-American women, but also at the society in which they live.


About the Authors

Kristal Brent Zook, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University in New York and an award-winning contributing writer with Essence magazine. She is the author of Color By FOX: The FOX Network and the Revolution in Black Television.



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