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These essays--from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.

Provides the first analysis of periodicals' key role in US feminism's formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Agatha Beins shows that the repetition of certain ideas in these periodicals solidified their centrality to feminism.