Bridging Race Divides

Dossett, Kate

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“…3] The clubs' emphasis on safe and wholesome recreation sometimes reflected earlier YWCA emphases on uplift, but they also provided young Black women encouragement about their right to industrial jobs, which offered them relief from the sexual vulnerability and isolation of the household occupations to which they had been largely confined. 39 Unlike the Industrial Program work for White women, the industrial work carried out by the wartime Colored Work Committee entailed fighting racism at every turn and creating committees to educate the public about Black women's right to decent work conditions and wages. Like the Industrial Program, it also provided working women a place to discuss their problems and seek solutions, and created rare recreational and social opportunities, as in Louisville, where 1,000 women attended "industrial girls' parties" in 1918.…”

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Working Out Their Economic Problems Together: World War I, Working Women, and Civil Rights in the Ywca

Browder

2015

J. gilded age prog. era

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This article examines how a group of Black and White YWCA staff members seized the opportunities of World War I to advance a racial justice agenda through Young Women's Christian Association programs for working women. First, they created YWCA program work for thousands of Black working women that paralleled the YWCA's Industrial Program, which followed YWCA segregation policies. Second, they made claims for social justice based on Black women's labor contributions, in contrast to both earlier reformers' focus on elite Black women and other wartime activists' focus on soldiers' service. Finally, in a period best known for White people's violent resistance to Black advances, they fostered a program culture and structures that encouraged White working-class women to view African American coworkers as colleagues and to understand racial justice as part of a broader social justice agenda. Arguing that interracial cooperation among working people was crucial to social progress, they made African American laboring women and White working-class allies both symbolically and literally crucial to wartime and postwar civil rights efforts. Their efforts contribute to our understanding of the changing discourse of “respectability” and the impact of World War I on the Black Freedom Struggle.

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Working Out Their Economic Problems Together: World War I, Working Women, and Civil Rights in the Ywca

Browder

2015

J. gilded age prog. era

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“Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America

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Griffin

2020

J. Am. Stud.

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This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before the formation of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in 1896. Looking deeper at arguments originally made by Maria Stewart concerning the denial of black women's ambitions and limiting potential in their working lives, the analysis employs the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, in particular his notion of the intellectual, to help reflect on the centrality of these black women in the development of an early counterhegemonic movement.

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“Something Apart, Yet an Integral Part”: Duke Ellington's Harlem and the Nexus of Race and Nation

Matlin

2021

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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Harlem loomed large in the imagination of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, one of the twentieth century's most significant composers and an important theorist of the condition of being black and American. This article provides insights into Ellington's social thought by foregrounding his evocations of Harlem and his efforts to interpolate that neighborhood into the physical, cultural, and imaginative spaces of US national life. In doing so, it also situates Ellington's ideas in relation to the competing intellectual currents of the Harlem Renaissance movement that had inspired his project of racial vindication. More broadly, the article argues that understanding of the history of African American ideas of race and nation benefits from analysis of discursive place-making and the spatial practices of artistic and intellectual work. Attending to space and place recuperates the complexity and multiplicity of such ideas, which are often concealed by abstracted discussion of concepts such as “integration.”

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Bridging Race Divides

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Working Out Their Economic Problems Together: World War I, Working Women, and Civil Rights in the Ywca

Working Out Their Economic Problems Together: World War I, Working Women, and Civil Rights in the Ywca

“Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America

“Something Apart, Yet an Integral Part”: Duke Ellington's Harlem and the Nexus of Race and Nation

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