BLUES LEGACIES
AND BLACK FEMINISM
GERTRUDE "MA" RAINEY,
BESSIE SMITH, AND
BILLIE HOLIDAY
by Angela Y. Davis

"I have always understood myself as a knowledgeable, enthusiastic listener, but Angela Davis's book is a complete revelation to me and a serious re-education."                                                                                                               -Toni Morrison "When ladies sang the blues, they also elaborated and aesthetics of resistance. By taking their lives and words so seriously, Angela Davis liberates the true voices of three of the most remarkable women in modern American history. This is a stunning contribution to our understanding of the dialectics of gender, race, and class."                                                                                 -Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz "Blues Legacies and  Black Feminism is an intellectual tour de force. It is fitting that its extraordinary author is writing about blues women who, she shows, in their time, were no less insurgent and feminist than she."                                                      -Paula Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter

* In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, one of our most important intellectuals    and political activists brilliantly
   reinterprets and celebrates the tradition of black women blues singers.
                                                                                                                                 -from inside jacket

Angela Davis
     -- currently Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, at Santa Cruz                         
     -- editor of If They Come in the Mornig: Voices of Resistance
     -- autobiography Women, Race, and Class, and Women, Culture, and Politics

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