T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of several books, including Negritude Women and the Emily Toth Award–winning Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, and the editor of The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Race, Rights, and WomenT. Denean SharpleyWhitingPaulette Nardal’s Woman in the CityAnnotated Translation by T. Denean SharpleyWhiting1. Woman in the City (January 1945)2. Setting the Record Straight (February 1945)3. From an Electoral Point of View (March 1945)4. Poverty Does Not Wait (May 1945)5. Martinican Women and Social Action (October 1945)6. And Now, What Are Our Objectives? (November 1945)7. To Work (February 1946)8. Martinican Women and Politics (July 1946)9. Facing History (October 1946)10. Abstention: A Social Crime (November 1946)11. United Nations (January 1947)12. About a Crime (October 1948)13. On Intellectual Laziness (November 1948)14. Editorial (July 1951)Selected Bibliography of Paulette Nardal’s WritingsIndex

"This is an exciting, comprehensive, and timely recovery of Paulette Nardal's work beyond her engagement with the Negritude movement." — Ewa PÂonowska Ziarek, coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis