Pushed Off The Tightrope

TITLE: VOLUNTEER SLAVERY: MY AUTHENTIC NEGRO EXPERIENCE

AUTHOR: JILL NELSON

PUBLISHER: NOBLE PRESS; 243 PAGES; $21.95

THE BOTTOM LINE: A bruising but amusing account of racial and sexual politics in one of the country's most liberal newsrooms.

& If black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice...

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