Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice

About the Author

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of Black Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service at Providence College. She is the author of Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy and Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics.