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Want to start a revolution? : radical women in the black freedom struggle.

The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gore, Dayo F.
Otros Autores: Theoharis, Jeanne, Woodard, Komozi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "No Small Amount of Change Could Do": Esther Cooper Jackson and the Making of a Black Left Feminist; 2 What "the Cause" Needs Is a "Brainy and Energetic Woman": A Study of Female Charismatic Leadership in Baltimore; 3 From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria "Vicki" Ama Garvin; 4 Shirley Graham Du Bois: Portrait of the Black Woman Artist as a Revolutionary; 5 "A Life History of Being Rebellious": The Radicalism of Rosa Parks; 6 Framing the Panther: Assata Shakur and Black Female Agency.
  • 7 Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Education: The Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School8 Must Revolution Be a Family Affair?: Revisiting The Black Woman; 9 Retraining the Heartworks: Women in Atlanta's Black Arts Movement; 10 "Women's Liberation or ... Black Liberation, You're Fighting the Same Enemies": Florynce Kennedy, Black Power, and Feminism; 11 To Make That Someday Come: Shirley Chisholm's Radical Politics of Possibility; 12 Denise Oliver and the Young Lords Party: Stretching the Political Boundaries of Struggle.
  • 13 Grassroots Leadership and Afro-Asian Solidarities: Yuri Kochiyama's Humanizing Radicalism14 "We Do Whatever Becomes Necessary": Johnnie Tillmon, Welfare Rights, and Black Power; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.