Author: Natanya Duncan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469683296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA cofounder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. In this deeply researched collective biography, Natanya Duncan documents the complexities of UNIA women as active participants in Black nation-building. Women from both sides of the Atlantic joined the UNIA in pursuit of gender and racial equality, developing a three-tiered activist strategy that Duncan calls “efficient womanhood”: seek equitable partnerships with like-minded persons and organizations, work as peer and intergenerational mentors, and serve as bridge builders between the organization and resources and people in service to their immediate communities and the race at large. Through an impressive and original archive of their self-determination, Duncan presents the stories of Henrietta Vinton Davis, Maymie de Mena, and Laura Kofey, as well as groups of UNIA women like the Black Cross Nurses, the Universal African Motor Corp, and the Lucy 9 Club, who circumvented the ideals of their era and created a brand of independent female leadership. The book demonstrates how UNIA women orchestrated and activated the organization from the bottom up while influencing and informing men and each other. By focusing on how women of the UNIA created an activist framework, Duncan reveals a model of organizing that has endured into the present day.
An Efficient Womanhood
Author: Natanya Duncan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469683296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA cofounder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. In this deeply researched collective biography, Natanya Duncan documents the complexities of UNIA women as active participants in Black nation-building. Women from both sides of the Atlantic joined the UNIA in pursuit of gender and racial equality, developing a three-tiered activist strategy that Duncan calls “efficient womanhood”: seek equitable partnerships with like-minded persons and organizations, work as peer and intergenerational mentors, and serve as bridge builders between the organization and resources and people in service to their immediate communities and the race at large. Through an impressive and original archive of their self-determination, Duncan presents the stories of Henrietta Vinton Davis, Maymie de Mena, and Laura Kofey, as well as groups of UNIA women like the Black Cross Nurses, the Universal African Motor Corp, and the Lucy 9 Club, who circumvented the ideals of their era and created a brand of independent female leadership. The book demonstrates how UNIA women orchestrated and activated the organization from the bottom up while influencing and informing men and each other. By focusing on how women of the UNIA created an activist framework, Duncan reveals a model of organizing that has endured into the present day.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469683296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA cofounder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. In this deeply researched collective biography, Natanya Duncan documents the complexities of UNIA women as active participants in Black nation-building. Women from both sides of the Atlantic joined the UNIA in pursuit of gender and racial equality, developing a three-tiered activist strategy that Duncan calls “efficient womanhood”: seek equitable partnerships with like-minded persons and organizations, work as peer and intergenerational mentors, and serve as bridge builders between the organization and resources and people in service to their immediate communities and the race at large. Through an impressive and original archive of their self-determination, Duncan presents the stories of Henrietta Vinton Davis, Maymie de Mena, and Laura Kofey, as well as groups of UNIA women like the Black Cross Nurses, the Universal African Motor Corp, and the Lucy 9 Club, who circumvented the ideals of their era and created a brand of independent female leadership. The book demonstrates how UNIA women orchestrated and activated the organization from the bottom up while influencing and informing men and each other. By focusing on how women of the UNIA created an activist framework, Duncan reveals a model of organizing that has endured into the present day.
An Efficient Womanhood
Author: NATANYA. DUNCAN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252045363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction Partnership and Praxis: Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Founding of the UNIA Womanly Ways of Amy Jacques Garvey and Other Women's Voices in The Negro World's Women's Page. Leadership Legacies: Henrietta Vinton Davis and Transnational Efficient Womanhood Diasporic Back Chat: The Poetry and Prose of Ethel Trew Dunlap and UNIA Women Bridge Building and the "Wonderful Opportunity to Expand (their) Intellect" "Hold Up, Build Up, Lift Up": Efficient Women & Extending the UNIA The Price of Efficient Woman: The Assassination of Laura Adorkor Koffey Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252045363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction Partnership and Praxis: Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Founding of the UNIA Womanly Ways of Amy Jacques Garvey and Other Women's Voices in The Negro World's Women's Page. Leadership Legacies: Henrietta Vinton Davis and Transnational Efficient Womanhood Diasporic Back Chat: The Poetry and Prose of Ethel Trew Dunlap and UNIA Women Bridge Building and the "Wonderful Opportunity to Expand (their) Intellect" "Hold Up, Build Up, Lift Up": Efficient Women & Extending the UNIA The Price of Efficient Woman: The Assassination of Laura Adorkor Koffey Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Intersectional Approach
Author: Guidroz Kathleen
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458755592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Inter sectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative paradigm, The Intersectional Approach guide...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458755592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Inter sectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative paradigm, The Intersectional Approach guide...
Author:
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146968330X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146968330X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
An Efficient Womanhood
Author: NATANYA. DUNCAN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252087486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction Partnership and Praxis: Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Founding of the UNIA Womanly Ways of Amy Jacques Garvey and Other Women's Voices in The Negro World's Women's Page. Leadership Legacies: Henrietta Vinton Davis and Transnational Efficient Womanhood Diasporic Back Chat: The Poetry and Prose of Ethel Trew Dunlap and UNIA Women Bridge Building and the "Wonderful Opportunity to Expand (their) Intellect" "Hold Up, Build Up, Lift Up": Efficient Women & Extending the UNIA The Price of Efficient Woman: The Assassination of Laura Adorkor Koffey Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252087486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction Partnership and Praxis: Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Founding of the UNIA Womanly Ways of Amy Jacques Garvey and Other Women's Voices in The Negro World's Women's Page. Leadership Legacies: Henrietta Vinton Davis and Transnational Efficient Womanhood Diasporic Back Chat: The Poetry and Prose of Ethel Trew Dunlap and UNIA Women Bridge Building and the "Wonderful Opportunity to Expand (their) Intellect" "Hold Up, Build Up, Lift Up": Efficient Women & Extending the UNIA The Price of Efficient Woman: The Assassination of Laura Adorkor Koffey Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Yours in Sisterhood
Author: Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its critical reception, Ms. quickly gained national success, selling out its first issue in only eight days and becoming a popular icon of the women's movement almost immediately. Amy Erdman Farrell traces the history of Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of Ms. itself, she examines the magazine's efforts to forge an oppositional politics within the context of commercial culture. While its status as a feminist and mass media magazine gave Ms. the power to move in circles unavailable to smaller, more radical feminist periodicals, it also created competing and conflicting pressures, says Farrell. She examines the complicated decisions made by the Ms. staff as they negotiated the multiple--frequently incompatible--demands of advertisers, readers, and the various and changing constituencies of the feminist movement. An engrossing and objective account, Yours in Sisterhood illuminates the significant yet difficult connections between commercial culture and social movements. It reveals a complex, often contradictory magazine that was a major force in the contemporary feminist movement.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its critical reception, Ms. quickly gained national success, selling out its first issue in only eight days and becoming a popular icon of the women's movement almost immediately. Amy Erdman Farrell traces the history of Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of Ms. itself, she examines the magazine's efforts to forge an oppositional politics within the context of commercial culture. While its status as a feminist and mass media magazine gave Ms. the power to move in circles unavailable to smaller, more radical feminist periodicals, it also created competing and conflicting pressures, says Farrell. She examines the complicated decisions made by the Ms. staff as they negotiated the multiple--frequently incompatible--demands of advertisers, readers, and the various and changing constituencies of the feminist movement. An engrossing and objective account, Yours in Sisterhood illuminates the significant yet difficult connections between commercial culture and social movements. It reveals a complex, often contradictory magazine that was a major force in the contemporary feminist movement.
A Nation within a Nation
Author: Komozi Woodard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing population concentrations of African Americans in the cities, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the nature of black political mobilization.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing population concentrations of African Americans in the cities, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the nature of black political mobilization.
The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: Aldon D. Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190062762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
The wide-ranging work of W. E. B. Du Bois, critical to understanding the role that race has played in creating the modern world we find around us, mostly has been ignored or hidden from sociological researchers until after the civil rights movement in the U.S. As a result, one of the key goals of The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is to reclaim Du Bois from those efforts to marginalize his thought. The chapters of this volume explore, in a comprehensive manner, all aspects of Du Boisian sociology. It is organized into ten thematic sections: Social Theory, Change and Agency; Sociology; Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual; Women and Gender Studies; Methodologies and Archival Resources; Black Interiority and Whiteness; Color Line, Empire, Marxism, and War; Talented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities; Black Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth; Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190062762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
The wide-ranging work of W. E. B. Du Bois, critical to understanding the role that race has played in creating the modern world we find around us, mostly has been ignored or hidden from sociological researchers until after the civil rights movement in the U.S. As a result, one of the key goals of The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is to reclaim Du Bois from those efforts to marginalize his thought. The chapters of this volume explore, in a comprehensive manner, all aspects of Du Boisian sociology. It is organized into ten thematic sections: Social Theory, Change and Agency; Sociology; Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual; Women and Gender Studies; Methodologies and Archival Resources; Black Interiority and Whiteness; Color Line, Empire, Marxism, and War; Talented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities; Black Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth; Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism.
Darkwater
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
These are the things of which men think who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
These are the things of which men think who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.