Black women in politics : demanding citizenship, challenging power, and seeking justice /

This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other women of color. By extending beyond particular time periods, locations...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Jordan-Zachery, Julia S., 1971- (Editor), Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Series:SUNY series in African American studies.
SUNY series in new political science.
Subjects:
Women, Black > Political activity > Cross-cultural studies.
Women, Black > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Feminism > Cross-cultural studies.
Femmes noires > Activité politique > Études transculturelles.
Femmes noires > Conditions sociales > Études transculturelles.
Féminisme > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Feminism
Women, Black > Political activity
Women, Black > Social conditions
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Black women's political labor: an introduction / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
  • Black feminists doing intersectionality work
  • Why political scientists don't study black women, but historians and sociologists do: on intersectionality and the remapping of the study of black political women / Nikol G. Alexander-floyd
  • "I ain't your darn help" : black women as the help in intersectionality research in political science / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
  • Black feminist policy analysis
  • The politics of black women's health in the U.K. : intersections of race, class and gender in policy, practice and research / Jenny Douglas
  • Hiding in plain sight: black women felons reentering society / Keesha M. Middlemass
  • An intersectionality-based policy analysis of how U.S. HIV/AIDS policy fails to "rescue" black orphans / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
  • Diasporic black women and the global political arena
  • El pan, el poder y la política: the politics of bread-making in Honduras' Garifuna community / Kia M.Q. Hall
  • Woman out of place: Portia Simpson-Miller and middle class politics in Jamaica / Maziki Thame
  • "We want to set the world on fire" : Black nationalist women and diasporic politics in the new Negro world, 1940-1944 / Keisha N. Blain
  • Discourses, movements, and representation
  • Morrisonian democracy: the literary praxis of black feminist political engagement / Judylyn Ryan
  • Illegitimate appetites: Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign as sexual regulation / Grace E. Howard
  • "We always resist: trust black women" : black women's reproductive justice activism in the wake of healthcare reform.

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