Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith

Denison, Barbara Jones

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“…Qualitative studies have revealed that cleaning practices among Black women are not only routine but often tied to cultural traditions and familial teachings. The ethnographic study by Frederick (2003) in "Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith" highlights how cleaning practices are often communal activities that reinforce social bonds. Family traditions around cleaning can serve as a rite of passage and a way to impart life lessons.…”

Section: Community and Family Traditionsmentioning

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Strength of the Sweep: Exploring the Cleaning Culture of Black Women Consumers

Powell,

Rey,

Alexander

2024

JMDC

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This qualitative research study delves into the rich cleaning culture among Black women consumers, aiming to uncover the underlying motivations, beliefs, and practices that shape their household cleaning behaviors. Through in-depth interviews, the research explores how cultural heritage, community expectations, and personal empowerment inform Black women’s cleaning rituals and product preferences. The study employs a grounded theory approach to analyze participants’ narratives, revealing a complex interplay between societal norms, familial traditions, and individual agency. The findings highlight the role of cleaning as a form of self-expression, a means to preserve cultural legacy, and a powerful avenue for fostering a sense of control and pride within domestic spaces. By illuminating the unique perspectives and experiences of Black women in the realm of domestic cleanliness, this study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of consumer behavior. It offers valuable insights for brands aiming to engage with this community respectfully and authentically.

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Section: Community and Family Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strength of the Sweep: Exploring the Cleaning Culture of Black Women Consumers

Powell,

Rey,

Alexander

2024

JMDC

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“…For her, usefulness was tied to spirituality, seen as an engagement with God that should guide the daily thoughts, words, and actions of a Muslim. Like Marla Frederick's (2003) description of spirituality among Black Christian women in the American South, usefulness and connectivity had both individual and communal mandates in Madinat's understanding, appealing to the broader good ( blago ) for the circle of her Muslim sisters. Thus, the experience of sisterly intimacies has a clearly material dimension, here mediated through the gift of clothing, as well as affective and spiritual dimensions.…”

Section: Knitting Sisterly Intimaciesmentioning

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Sisterly intimacies: Islam, gift‐giving, and women's relations of care in Russia

Rabinovich

2023

American Anthropologist

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Saint Petersburg (Russia) between 2015 and 2016, this article weaves together gift exchange and affect theory to analyze how low‐income Muslim women cultivated sisterly intimacies, a materially mediated and affect‐laden form of attachment. Sustained through the practices of giving clothing, food, and other spiritually significant items to one another, sisterly intimacies illuminates not only how the women survived and thrived on the margins of Russian society amid socioeconomic crises and political volatility but also how their material exchanges facilitated their ability to remain continuously oriented toward their community and God while striving for an ethical Muslim life and a favorable afterlife. Sisterly intimacies as a cultural formation also offers a broader glimpse into the affective landscapes of Russia, where indignation about socioeconomic injustices and authoritarianism coexist with a desire for (religious) connectivity, ethical living, and collective world‐making. Sisterly intimacies as a mode of relationality and self‐making highlights the agentive capacity of intimacy to create worlds for those who struggle to live in ways that they consider meaningful.

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“…An important dimension to Black feminist thought is its embrace of knowledge and wisdom from all domains of the lives of African-descendant women. Poets, cooks, cleaners, preachers, artists, and artisans alongside academics become sources of knowledge in confronting racism and patriarchy in contemporary societies (Collins, 1991;Etienne, 2016;Frederick, 2003). Lessons can be learnt here for Africandescendant scholars in the United Kingdom.…”

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From Ethnic Minorities to Black Majorities: The Challenges and Dilemmas of Attempting to Decolonize the British Higher Education System

Ackah

2023

Education Across the African Diaspora

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Using a decolonial and Black feminist inspired analytical lens this paper explores the dilemmas and challenges that Black academics face in trying to bring about change in universities within the British higher education system. Higher education focused campaigns such as Why isn't my Professor Black? Why is my curriculum White? Rhodes must fall has positioned education as a site of struggle for the empowerment and liberation of Black communities, but with less than 100 full Professors of African descent in occupying academic positions the article critically examines whether the British university can truly be a site for decolonisation and liberation for African descendants and people of colour. In reflecting on the 400th year anniversary African descendant forced migration to the Americas, the article argues for a renewal of African descendant collaboration along Pan-African lines to decolonize the British education system and foster systems of education that empower African descendant communities across the globe.

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Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith

Cited by 5 publications

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Strength of the Sweep: Exploring the Cleaning Culture of Black Women Consumers

Strength of the Sweep: Exploring the Cleaning Culture of Black Women Consumers

Sisterly intimacies: Islam, gift‐giving, and women's relations of care in Russia

From Ethnic Minorities to Black Majorities: The Challenges and Dilemmas of Attempting to Decolonize the British Higher Education System

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