RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewA thoroughly absorbing exploration of the formative role that nature has played in American women’s lives ... Wild Girls reframes hard-fought battles for women’s equality through the lens of empowerment provided by the natural world.
Keisha N. Blain
RaveThe New York TimesIn Until I Am Free, Blain asks us to revisit the activist’s achievements through the lens of the current civil rights movement. She argues that Hamer pioneered an approach to fighting racism, sexism and class discrimination that is relevant today ... Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward looking, Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.
Kate Clifford Larson
RaveThe New York Time Book ReviewLarson, a visiting scholar at Brandeis’s Women’s Studies Research Center, draws from pathbreaking research on Hamer, including books by Kay Mills, Chana Kai Lee, Earnest Bracey and Maegan Parker Brooks, as well as oral histories and newly available census records and digitized newspapers, to offer an inspired account of Hamer’s contributions. Walk With Me is a gripping and skillfully researched political biography that embeds Hamer’s personal history within a compelling account of the post-World War II civil rights movement.
