Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

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Hardback copy of Michele Wallace's Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman book. Paper cover is off-white with black, red, and pink type. Front of paper cover reads [BLACK/MACHO] in red, with [& the Myth of the] underneath in black, with [SUPER-/WOMAN] underneath in pink letters with black shadow, with ["I am saying ...there is a profound distrust, if not hatred, between black/men and black women that has been nursed along largely by white/racism but also by an almost deliberate ignorance on the part of blacks/about the sexual politics of their expereience in this country."/Michele Wallace] at the bottom in black, various sized, types. Hardback cover itself is mustard yellow with black binding. Interior pages, 182 pages total, are off-white with black type, front and back. Back of paper cover has a black-and-white image of Michele Wallace (frontal bust view) by Faith Ringgold, in a turtleneck with scarf wrapped around her head.

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