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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (1st Edition) by Angela Yvonne Davis Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-679-77126-3 / 0679771263 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77126-5 / 9780679771265 From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the p |