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Patricia Romney received her PhD in clinical psychology from the City University of New York. She is a retired professor who taught at Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke College, and is the coeditor of Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services. She is based in Amherst, MA. Farah Ameen is a Bangladeshi American writer and editor who has worked at major national magazines for decades. She is passionate about issues of women's rights, race, and the immigrant experience. She lives in Amherst, MA.
Fifty years ago, the Third World Women's Alliance passionately insisted on interconnections among racism, sexism, and capitalism, inspiring radical analytical frameworks and organizing strategies associated with contemporary conceptions of feminism. We are deeply indebted to Patricia Romney for helping to generate a record of the Alliance's pioneering contributions and thus for ensuring that their revolutionary legacies live on. --Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement In We Were There, Sistah Pat has created a riveting collective memory and critique of the TWWA's radical contributions to our enduring movement for justice and liberation. --Melanie Tervalon, physician, educator, and activist With a narrative that is both engaging and inspiring, Patricia Romney's We Were There gives us an important insider's view of the Third World Women's Alliance and the powerful sisterhood that transformed the lives of so many women. Now more than ever, we need the voices of women of color activists who were fighting against racism, sexism, and classism in the 1970s to speak across generations and share their lessons learned. The struggle continues! --Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race We Were There brilliantly makes visible and salient the complex and intersectional stories of the 1970s women's movement that have so often been whitewashed and omitted in many educational contexts. This book is a heartfelt and compassionate scholarly exploration of coalition building, education and activism, centering the work and stories of women of color. Dr. Romney is a gifted storyteller and talented scholar who offers us, as readers, insight and wisdom that helps to better understand contemporary social justice work. --Marcella Runell Hall, coeditor of UnCommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friendship
