T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of several books, including Negritude Women and the Emily Toth Award-winning Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, and the editor of The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union."

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Race, Rights, and Women
T. Denean SharpleyWhiting

Paulette Nardal's Woman in the City
Annotated Translation by T. Denean SharpleyWhiting

1. Woman in the City (January 1945)

2. Setting the Record Straight (February 1945)

3. From an Electoral Point of View (March 1945)

4. Poverty Does Not Wait (May 1945)

5. Martinican Women and Social Action (October 1945)

6. And Now, What Are Our Objectives? (November 1945)

7. To Work (February 1946)

8. Martinican Women and Politics (July 1946)

9. Facing History (October 1946)

10. Abstention: A Social Crime (November 1946)

11. United Nations (January 1947)

12. About a Crime (October 1948)

13. On Intellectual Laziness (November 1948)

14. Editorial (July 1951) Selected Bibliography of Paulette Nardal's Writings

Index