What kind of mother is she?: From Margaret Garner to Rosa Lee Ingram to Mamie Till to the Murder of Korryn Gaines

Carter, LaShonda; Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany

doi:10.1353/tae.2018.0003

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“…The study of Black women's politics is a growing subfield within political science (Prestage 1991;Harris-Perry 2011;Simien 2005;Farris and Holman 2014;Brown and Young 2015;Isoke 2013;Alexander-Floyd 2017;Brown 2014;Mitchell 2017;Jordan-Zachery 2014;Perry 2013;Gay and Tate 1998). While much of this research centers around Black women's participation in traditional electoral politics, there is a growing interest in Black women's extra-systemic politics (Jordan-Zachery 2018;Alexander-Floyd 2016;James 2016;Isoke 2013;Berger 2006;Watkins-Hayes 2019;Carter and Willoughby-Herard 2018;Simien 2006;Harris 2009;Cohen 2005). Similarly, a significant portion of the study of Black women's politics within political science focuses on Black women with the resources to engage in the aforementioned traditional politics.…”

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“…However, the study of the politics of Black women living below the poverty line is also an ever-growing area of interest (Michener 2017b(Michener , 2016Berger 2006;Watkins-Hayes 2019;Hancock 2004;Desmond and Travis 2018;Carter and Willoughby-Herard 2018;Perry 2013;Francis 2018;Lentz-Smith 2020;Michener and Brower 2020;Cohen 2004). The research I develop within this article, adds to the literature on Black women's politics, by focusing on the politics of secondarily marginalized Black women, many of whom have firsthand experiences with residential violence (Cohen 1999;Richie 2012).…”

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“…Scholars have noted the link between violence within the domestic United States, aimed at subduing Black people, and Black political consciousness (Davis 1983). Black women living within the United States have a long history of being disproportionately targeted by sexual violence, criminal violence, domestic violence, state-sponsored brutality, and systemic violence (Carter and Willoughby-Herard 2018;Feimster 2011;McGuire 2011). Unfortunately, the socio-political impact of residential violence domestic to the United States has been understudied.…”

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“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line

Moffett-Bateau

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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Prior research examining political behavior outside of the United States, has shown that violence can have a mixed impact on political engagement. Building on that work, this research examines whether violence shapes the political lives of poor Black women within the United States. I argue, neighborhood violence in the United States can and often does, shape the political behavior of Black women living below the poverty line in public housing. I use ethnographic data to parse out a conceptual framework which articulates connections between residential violence experienced by Black women living in poverty and their politics. Ultimately, my analysis shows violence can cause isolation and harm, and in doing so dampen political engagement. When residents experienced high levels of violence and did not feel a sense of belonging or connection to their neighborhood, they rarely engage d in visible political behaviors. However, residents who expressed a sense of connection to their neighborhood continued to engage in politics. Those residents who had interpersonal relationships within their residential neighborhood, frequently maintained and sometimes further developed their individual politics, despite and sometimes in response to, personal experiences with residential violence.

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