Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism.

"Potent and relevant pieces by a groundbreaking Black politician."

• ContentsIntroduction 1. Education “The Necessity for a New Thrust in Education Today” “The Day Care Dilemma” Closing Remarks, “Black Studies and Women’s Studies: An Overdue Partnership” “Black Struggle in History for Excellence in Education” 2. Colonialism “People and Peace, Not Profits and War” “The Black as a Colonized Man” “On Captive Nations Week” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 1: Foreign Aid Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 2: The Middle East Crisis Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 3: Equality of Commitment—Africa 3. Criminal Justice “The Attica Prison Uprising: A National Tragedy and Disgrace” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 5: Justice in America 4. Race, Racism, and Civil Rights “Racism and Polarization” “On Busing Desegregation” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 8: Housing “The White Press: Sexist and Racist” “U.S. Policy and Black Refugees” 5. U.S. Politics and Coalitions of the Marginal “A Government That Cannot Hear the People” Presidential Campaign Announcement “The Politics of Coalition” “Politics Is Every Black Woman’s Business” 6. Women’s Rights and Leadership “Equal Rights for Women” “Economic Justice for Women” “I’d Rather Be Black Than Female” “Facing the Abortion Question” “Race, Revolution, and Women” “The Black Woman in Contemporary America” Address to the Conference of Black and Latin Women in Art and Politics “The Viability of Black Women in Politics” 7. Youth and Student Revolution “Progress through Understanding” “Lowering the Voting Age to 18” “Youth and America’s Future” 8. Poetry “Land of Our Birth” Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index

Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism.

"Potent and relevant pieces by a groundbreaking Black politician."

• ContentsIntroduction 1. Education “The Necessity for a New Thrust in Education Today” “The Day Care Dilemma” Closing Remarks, “Black Studies and Women’s Studies: An Overdue Partnership” “Black Struggle in History for Excellence in Education” 2. Colonialism “People and Peace, Not Profits and War” “The Black as a Colonized Man” “On Captive Nations Week” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 1: Foreign Aid Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 2: The Middle East Crisis Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 3: Equality of Commitment—Africa 3. Criminal Justice “The Attica Prison Uprising: A National Tragedy and Disgrace” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 5: Justice in America 4. Race, Racism, and Civil Rights “Racism and Polarization” “On Busing Desegregation” Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 8: Housing “The White Press: Sexist and Racist” “U.S. Policy and Black Refugees” 5. U.S. Politics and Coalitions of the Marginal “A Government That Cannot Hear the People” Presidential Campaign Announcement “The Politics of Coalition” “Politics Is Every Black Woman’s Business” 6. Women’s Rights and Leadership “Equal Rights for Women” “Economic Justice for Women” “I’d Rather Be Black Than Female” “Facing the Abortion Question” “Race, Revolution, and Women” “The Black Woman in Contemporary America” Address to the Conference of Black and Latin Women in Art and Politics “The Viability of Black Women in Politics” 7. Youth and Student Revolution “Progress through Understanding” “Lowering the Voting Age to 18” “Youth and America’s Future” 8. Poetry “Land of Our Birth” Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index