Early Community Work of Black Club Women

Lerner, Gerda

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“…Each of these authors has written about the formation of social clubs and organizations by and for African American women during the 1800s (Hine, 1990;Lerner, 1974;Scott, 1990). But, there is limited research on the range and scope of educational activism among African American women's social service organizations such as the three examined in this case study, especially during the mid-twentieth century.…”

Section: Race and Equality In The Academy 139mentioning

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“…Gerda Lerner, Darlene Clark Hine, and Anne Firor Scott have argued that many stories of African American women's clubs and organizations remain undocumented (Hine, 1990;Lerner, 1974;Scott, 1990). Each of these authors has written about the formation of social clubs and organizations by and for African American women during the 1800s (Hine, 1990;Lerner, 1974;Scott, 1990).…”

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Race and Equality in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education Actors and the Struggle for Equality in the Post-World War II Period

Hutcheson¹,

Gasman²,

Sanders-McMurtry³

2011

The Journal of Higher Education

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Race and Equality in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education Actors and the Struggle for Equality in the Post-World War II Period

Hutcheson¹,

Gasman²,

Sanders-McMurtry³

2011

The Journal of Higher Education

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“…And this isn't the first time such urban and social transformations have been in play, with feminist scholars and activists of different races and ethnicities at the forefront (Lerner, 1974;Nembhard, 2014;Parker, 2012). We believe it is a useful time to revisit historical endeavors by female urban reformers described by Dolores Hayden and others in light of contemporary and ongoing activists efforts to reshape urban provisioning, housing, environments and economies.…”

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“…However, the vision of gender equity in cities based on care, collectivity and creativity articulated by early feminists remains under-realized. So too, do ideals of racial and class justice in cities that were too seldom articulated by white female reformers but were often central in the organizing efforts of women of color (Lerner, 1974;Nembhard, 2014;Chatelain, 2015).…”

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Care, commoning and collectivity: from grand domestic revolution to urban transformation

Morrow

Parker

2020

Urban Geography

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Given profound urban challenges amplified by COVID-19, we need to center anti-racist feminists' lenses on care, commoning, and collectivity in our cultivations and analyses of urban change. We join a chorus of feminists who critique the devaluation, erasure, and isolation of care in the cities that we build and the stories we tell about them. But this is well-traversed territory, the 'me too' tale of every feminist who dreamsa different city or kind of urban theory. So, we outline a research agenda rooted in intersectional feminist imaginations and transformations that live around us. Neither nomadic nor confined to the home, care, commoning and collectivity can be aspirational, spatial, and practical. Inspired by Dolores Hayden and intersectional feminists, we ask: What kinds of socio-spatial imaginations can produce just, sustainable cities and who makes them? What material practices enable social change and improve everyday life, and at what scales might struggles for just cities be waged? ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This multifaceted enterprise addresses a wide range of social and political issues, revealing a Black feminist vision of welfare akin to Black women and other women activists of an earlier era (Gordon 1994;Hamilton 1978;Harley and Terborg-Penn 1978;Jenkins 1984;Lerner 1974;Neverdon-Morton 1989;Townes 1993). Under the umbrella of the Center for Community Health and Well-Being, Inc., are parallel programs: "Imani", which provides support to women who engaged in or who are potentially at risk for child abuse and/or substance abuse; the Economic Development Program, which trains and employs women to provide in-home support services to families; and the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program, which offers maternal health care.…”

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Black Activist Mothering

McDonald

1997

Gender & Society

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The prevalence of poor health among young disadvantaged Black mothers and their children has prompted a revival of maternal activism among Black middle-class urban women. A study of the California-based "Birthing Project," founded in 1988, reveals that such activism is best understood as a modern-day version of Black activist mothering practiced by AfricanAmerican clubwomen from the time of slavery to the early 1940s. This article demonstrates the legacy of "normative empathy" as a significant motivator for middle-class maternal activism and as a basis for a middle-class critique of Black mothering among the disadvantaged. 1 BLACK ACTIVIST MOTHERING: A Historical Intersection of Race, Gender and ClassFor more than 20 years, reformative social policy and technological advances have done little to curb the unyielding threat of Black infant mortality. Although the overall infant mortality rate in the U.S. has been on the decline for many years, recent figures show that Black babies continue to die at more than twice the rate of those of whites (Fullilove 1993;Rowley et al. 1993;Singh and Yu 1995). This crisis, one of the most vexing problems for African America, was precipitated by a host of interrelated medical, sociodemographic, and psychosocial problems suffered primarily among the most vulnerable population: young African-American mothers of the "underclass" (Boone 1989;Fullilove 1993;Rowley et al. 1993).While the root cause of elevated poor pregnancy outcomes among African-Americans lies in the historically oppressive conditions of Black women's lives, a popular argument is that this crisis, like many others, has been exacerbated by the restructuring of Black social capital. The persistence of poor birth outcomes for Blacks is often linked to the recent "Black flight" of the middle class from urban areas (Anderson 1990;Baca Zinn 1990; Wilson 1987 Wilson , 1989. The resultant spatial concentration of disorganized, unskilled, and alienated "underclass" populations in urban neighborhoods is said to worsen the most negative features of Black mothers lives by effectively severing the long-standing link between Black middle-class maternal support and disadvantaged women.Claims about the significance of the social class schism in the Black community are not 2 easily dismissed. For example, Black feminist theory has addressed, though scantily, the class polarization of the Black community and its potential to dismantle gender/ethnic solidarity.Some authors openly admit that the strong Black maternal activist tradition is not immune to the problems of urbanization and the dislocation of women from the "once familial" character of social relationships within the community (Ladner 1986, 17). As Collins explains,The entire community structure of bloodmothers and othermothers is under assault in many inner-city neighborhoods, where the very fabric of African-American community life is being eroded (1991, 122).Nonetheless, while there has been a re-organization of social relations among African-American urban women...

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Early Community Work of Black Club Women

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Race and Equality in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education Actors and the Struggle for Equality in the Post-World War II Period

Race and Equality in the Academy: Rethinking Higher Education Actors and the Struggle for Equality in the Post-World War II Period

Care, commoning and collectivity: from grand domestic revolution to urban transformation

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