Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman by Michele Wallace

Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman

Michele Wallace

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

228 pages | first published 1978

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Michele Wallace blasts the masculinist bias of 1960s Black politics, showing how women remained marginalised by the patriarchal culture of Black Power. She describes the ways in which traditional, male-identified myths of Black womanhood block the...
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