Dissertations / Theses: 'Black women`s history'

1

Mukhopadhyay, Susmita. "The Novels of Toni Morison : rewriting black women`s history." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1496.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Telles, Lorena Feres da Silva. "Libertas entre sobrados: contratos de trabalho doméstico em São Paulo na derrocada da escravidão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-10082012-170442/.

Full text

Abstract:

A pesquisa acompanha as experiências sociais de mulheres escravas, libertas e descendentes livres, na cidade de São Paulo, durante o último quartel do século XIX, no processo social da transição do trabalho escravo para o livre. Pesquisamos livros de inscrições e de contratos de trabalho livre, exigências previstas pelas Posturas Municipais sobre Criados e Amas de Leite, de 1886. O conjunto de regulamentos vinha formalizar deveres e obrigações para empregadores e trabalhadores livres, no contexto do crescimento urbano acelerado, do processo avançado da abolição e da política imigratória que conduziam para a Capital imigrantes pobres e libertos destutelados. Migrantes das regiões escravistas da Província e daquelas que forneceram escravos para o tráfico interprovincial, africanas livres e nascidas na Capital empregaram-se nas residências das elites e camadas médias urbanas. Vislumbramos as estratégias de sobrevivência das agentes do trabalho doméstico livres e pobres, que a polícia registrava nos anos finais do regime escravista. Afastadas das atividades rentáveis, no contexto de pouca diversificação econômica, ex-escravas e descendentes livres sobreviveram dos parcos ganhos auferidos daqueles serviços socialmente desqualificados, dos quais os membros das elites e classes médias dependiam: fazendeiros, estrangeiros proprietários de hotéis, donos de confeitarias, coronéis, funcionários públicos, profissionais liberais, viúvas pobres e remediadas. Reconstituímos o cotidiano dos variados trabalhos que desempenharam a cozinha, a lavagem e o engomado das roupas, a limpeza da casa, o cuidado e o aleitamento de crianças , transitando entre as ruas, as várzeas dos rios e o tenso ambiente das casas. Das entrelinhas dos textos emergem libertas dispostas a improvisar variadas formas de resistência e recusa à opressão cotidiana. Experimentaram as liberdades possíveis e inegociáveis: recusaram com suas indisciplinas as jornadas extenuantes de trabalho, conquistaram aumentos salariais, cuidaram de seus doentes, compartilharam moradias com seus companheiros e filhos. Abandonando por fim os sobrados, indispuseram-se ao assédio sexual, aos maus tratos e aos baixos ordenados, que nem sempre recebiam: permanências de um escravismo doméstico e persistente, que, com suas práticas, ousaram recusar.
The research assembles the social experiences of slave women, released and free descendants in São Paulo during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the social process of transition from slave work to freedom. In order to accomplished our aim, we rummage into the books, subscriptions and free employment contracts, requirements established by Municipal ordinances on Criadas e Amas de Leite, from 1886. The ensemble of regulations was made in order to formalize the duties and obligations for employers and free employees , in the context of hasty urban growth the advanced process of abolition and the immigration policy that led, to the main city, poor immigrants and unruly people. Migrants from provincial slavery region sand those slaveholders who provided slaves to an interprovincial trafficking, mainly free African born, were employed in the elite and urban middle classes residences. We glimpse the survival strategies from poor and free agents of the housework registered by the police during the final years of the slave regime. Displaced from profitable activities in the context of low economic diversification, formers slaves and free descendants survived from meager gains earned from these socially unskilled services of which the members of the elite and middle classes depended and profited: farmers, foreigners hotel owners, colonels, civil servants, professional, widows and poor remedied. Our research attempt to reconstruct the daily life of several jobs that these free women have done in the new social order: the kitchen, washing and ironing clothes, cleaning the house, care and feeding children, traffic in the streets, the riverside and the tense environment of the houses. Reading between the lines of texts, it is possible to observe the existence of released women willing to improvise various ways of resistance and rejection of everyday oppression. Their experience makes possible ways of non-negotiable freedom, refusing, with their misbehavior, the days of exhausting work, consequently, winning wage increases, caring for their patients and the possibility of sharing housing with their partners and children. With the further abandon of the traditional townhouses, they eventually avoid the sexual harassment and the bad treatment: sojourn of domestic and persistent slavery, that these women, with their daily practices, have dared to decline.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Oliveira, Waldete Tristão Farias. "Trajetórias de mulheres negras na educação de crianças pequenas no Distrito do Jaraguá em São Paulo: processos diferenciados de formação e de introdução no mercado de trabalho." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10491.

Full text

Abstract:

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WALDETE TRISTAO FARIAS OLIVEIRA.pdf: 1203583 bytes, checksum: 132e30a9ccaf579987680978ce20f16a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-27
This research has for objective to understand and to reconstruct the professional trajectory of educators who act in day-care centers, at the moment, calls of Centro de Educação Infantil. The investigated citizens are black women - day-care center educators. Life histories had been collected with the objective to understand as the day-care center if it transformed into a market of possible work for the black women, deriving of the social class subordinate. This inquiry counted on the contribution of six professionals who act in day-care centers of the city of São Paulo, specifically located in the zone the northwest of the city under jurisdiction of the Coordenadoria de Educação de Pirituba. Four are assistant of infantile development of direct day-care center and two are managing; one of indirect day-care center and to another one of covenanted day-care center. Leaving of the principle of that "all the lives are interesting", verbal history was used as a strategy to return the word to the day-care center educators so that they spoke of singular moments that they had only known, as well as, on the social place of the professional of the day-care center. The carried through research showed that, for the set of the searched educators, the ingression in the day-care center represented ascending social mobility in relation to its family of origin and that identify was and is (they are) built to the long one of the life for contrast, in the different situations and also for option politics
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo entender e reconstruir a trajetória profissional de educadoras que atuam em creches, no momento, chamadas de Centros de Educação Infantil. Os sujeitos investigados são mulheres negras educadoras de creche. Histórias de vida foram coletadas com o objetivo de compreender como a creche se transformou em um mercado de trabalho possível para as mulheres negras, oriundas das classes sociais subordinadas. Esta investigação contou com a colaboração de seis profissionais que atuam em creches do município de São Paulo, especificamente localizadas na zona noroeste da cidade sob jurisdição da Coordenadoria de Educação de Pirituba. Quatro são Auxiliares de Desenvolvimento Infantil de creche direta e duas são diretoras; uma de creche indireta e a outra de creche conveniada. Partindo do princípio de que todas as vidas são interessantes , a história oral foi utilizada como uma estratégia para devolver a palavra às educadoras de creche para que falassem de momentos singulares que só elas conheceram, bem como, sobre o lugar social da profissional da creche. A pesquisa realizada mostrou que, para o conjunto das educadoras pesquisadas, o ingresso na creche representou mobilidade social ascendente em relação à sua família de origem e que identidade(s) foi (foram) e é (são) construída(s) ao longo da vida por contraste, nas diferentes situações e também por opção política

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Shaw, Stephanie. "Black women in white collars: a social history of lower-level professional black women workers, 1870-1954." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1333997864.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Shaw, Stephanie J. "Black women in white collars : a social history of lower-level professional black women workers, 1870-1954 /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266362337939.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Claiborne, Corrie Beatrice. "Quiet brown Buddha(s) : Black women intellectuals, silence and American culture /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488199501403452.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Echevarria-Howe, Lynn Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "Life history as process and product; the social construction of self through feminist methodologies and Canadian Black experience." Ottawa, 1992.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Donovan, Mary Magdalene. "Maneuvering Life| Women of Color on the Louisiana Frontier." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163325.

Full text

Abstract:

During the colonial and early antebellum periods, women of color on the Louisiana frontier received significant amounts of money and property from white male benefactors for themselves and their mixed-race children. Although state laws placed restrictions on inheritances and donations to concubines and illegitimate children, the majority of such transactions in southwest Louisiana went unchallenged or remained intact after white heirs challenged their legality. This study examines how free women of color or manumitted female slaves and their mixed-race children in southwest Louisiana acquired and maintained control of such property between 1740 and 1840, in spite of the laws that barred them from doing so. Few scholarly works have focused their attention exclusively to the lives of women of color on the Louisiana frontier during the colonial and early American era and those that have typically adhere to a very strict regional or urban focus, leaving out significant swaths of the state. This study scrutinizes the lives of women of color living on the Louisiana frontier between the years of 1740 and 1840, who formed long-term relationships with white men and received property as a result of these relationships.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Marshall, Amani N. "Enslaved women runaways in South Carolina, 1820--1865." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278199.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 4025. Adviser: Claude Clegg. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2008).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Bressey, Tanya Caroline Anne. "Forgotten geographies : historical geographies of black women in Victorian and Edwardian London." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274071.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Gonzalez, Jennifer Powell. "Searching for Sisterhood: Black Women, Race and the Georgia ERA." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/3.

Full text

Abstract:

This Thesis is a local study employing new definitions of political activism and using oral histories, personal records and organizational archived material to debunk the myth that the feminist struggle surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment was separate from issues of race. Black women were involved in the fight for the ERA although not necessarily in the ways that White men and women might expect. Additionally, even when not obviously present, proponents and opponents of the ERA argued over the idea of Black women and race. Concern about Black women, overt racism and coded race language were all a part of the struggle by Georgia ERA Inc. advocates as well as Stop-ERA members. Race is intimately tied to the struggle for the ERA in Georgia.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Miles, Dawn Michelle. "Resisting in Their Own Way: Black Women and Resistance in the British Caribbean." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275345029.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Brown, Haley. "The Lynching of Women in Texas, 1885-1926." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752371/.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Concannon, Karen Elizabeth. "Identity and women poets of the Black Atlantic : musicality, history, and home." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9371/.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis takes as its subject the points of connections and comparison that exist between five African American and Black British women poets, whose writings range from 1942 to the present day. It concentrates on the interconnection and reconstruction of their spatio-temporal geographies and their utilisation of musical traditions and historical narratives and ideas of location-dependent selfhood to articulate identity. Whilst previous scholarship tends to focus on the confines of a nation-state modality, with specifically American or British interpretations of African heritage, the methodology here is centred on the importance of a transatlantic poetic discourse to identify how literary and cultural exchanges transcend these borders. The first chapter examines the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, whose ability to combine traditional forms and African American vernacular, especially in what I identify as her ‘blues sonnets’, contextualises the voice of the marginalised in segregated Chicago within post-War US culture. The following chapter then shows that Brooks’s near-contemporary, Margaret Walker, often also follows the formal conventions of the English poetic tradition yet does so to represent the ordeal of Jim Crow segregation, while also harnessing what I will show is a mythopoeic ‘I’, which allows her to inhabit traumatic histories of slavery and its long US aftermath. The public, political grounding established by these poets is adopted by Nikki Giovanni, whose categorical voice before and after the Black Arts Movement constructs an historically minded identification for African Americans, with respect to the relationship between a prejudiced society and recognition of African origins, particularly through the musical and oral traditions that predicated the trajectory of African American cultural productions. In the fourth chapter, I then show that the work of Grace Nichols develops this invocation of an African ‘source’ and that her lyrical aesthetic, likewise, makes use of her journeys across the Atlantic and of a perpetual reconstruction of her Afro-Caribbean and Black British identities; she articulates these through her under-examined tributes to American literary influences. This sense of an Atlantic triangulation then provides the thesis with the locus through which it approaches Jackie Kay’s oeuvre. In the final chapter, I show that Kay regularly examines her complex Scottish-Nigerian heritage through the animating lens of African American blues. As such, this thesis assembles together a new and transnational group of poets, examining the intersections of their work and illuminating the shared motifs of home, origins, transformative self-identity, musicality, historical consciousness, and racial and sexual politics.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Benoit, Ernst. "Les policiers et policières noir-e-s d'origine haïtienne : étude exploratoire sur leurs pratiques de travail." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4261.

Full text

Abstract:

Dans cette recherche, nous chercherons comment l'experience de travail des policiers d'origine haitienne est affecte par une situation minoritaire et empreinte de racisme. Pour ce faire, nous avons tout d'abord mis en evidence l'existence du "racisme" dans la police pour ensuite tenter d'en reperer les effets sur les policiers haitiens a travers leur perception de carriere et leur relations de travail. De l'analyse des donnees (entrevues avec 8 policiers et policieres), est ressortie l'importance de prendre en compte non seulement leur situation minoritaire et le racisme, mais egalement leur positionnement en tant qu'acteurs sociaux qui participent a leur integration. Cette integration a mis en evidence plusieurs pratiques sociales qui ont marque d'une maniere indelebile la societe haitenne, et, par voie de consequence, la communaute haitienne a Montreal. Nous faisons ici reference aux croyances vaudouesques et l'ideologie coloriste qui traverse la culture de ces derniers depuis pres de deux siecles, et posent de nouveaux defits a l'approche communautaire de la police.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Walker, Pamela N. ""Pray for Me and My Kids": Correspondence between Rural Black Women and White Northern Women During the Civil Rights Movement." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1999.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper examines the experiences of rural black women in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement by examining correspondence of the grassroots anti-poverty organization the Box Project. The Box Project, founded in 1962 by white Vermont resident and radical activist Virginia Naeve, provided direct relief to black families living in Mississippi but also opened positive and clandestine lines of communication between southern black women and outsiders, most often white women. The efforts of the Box Project have been largely left out of the dialogue surrounding Civil Rights, which has often been dominated by leading figures, major events and national organizations. This paper seeks to understand the discreet but effective ways in which some black women, though constrained by motherhood, abject poverty, and rural isolation participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and how black and white women worked together to chip away at the foundations of inequality that Jim Crow produced.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

McGehee, Elizabeth Hathhorn. "White Democracy, Racism, and Black Disfranchisement: North Carolina in the 1830's." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625541.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Jockel, Joan Elizabeth. "Strategic Representations of Black Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Masculine British Print." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153865.

Full text

Abstract:

The two papers that comprise this Master's portfolio each explore colonial representations of black women and the constructed nature of imperial British masculinity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Both papers interrogate strategic portrayals of black women's bodily experience, character, and personal relationships as they appeared in print material such as newspapers, books, trial accounts, and pamphlets in the British Atlantic. Additionally, they analyze how British men in Caribbean colonies and the metropole used these representations as rhetorical tools to debate class-based understandings of masculine power. The portfolio collectively explores these questions in a broad context, investigating the racial and imperial implications of gender violence in British print sources, interrogating how white British men used race, ethnicity, and gender to construct and legitimize their identities, obscuring women of color's actual lived experience in the process. The first paper "'They Brutalize the Manners of Men': Black Female Bodies and the Construction of Colonial British Masculinity in the Abolition Debate for Jamaica (1772-1833)" looks at representations of enslaved Jamaican women in works written between the British Parliament's decision in Somerset v. Stewart (1771) and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, during which the debate over abolition was arguably at its most fervent. It argues that writers on both sides of the slavery debate saw the question of human-ownership as a question of masculine responsibility and right —and sought to express it in terms of racialized and gendered bodies. They formulated simplistic portrayals of enslaved women as contrastingly in need of paternal protection from physical brutality and the victimization of predatory interracial relationships – or as in need of harsh structure and white domination to protect them from the natural degradation of black culture. It further asserts that while pro and antislavery advocates used racial and gendered constructions differently, for seemingly opposite ends, both sets of writing ultimately furthered racial anxieties and stereotypes and obscured lived realities through the symbolic high-jacking of enslaved female bodies. The second paper, " 'Delightful Horror' and 'Guilty Fascination': British Masculinity and Strategic Race and Gender Portrayals in The Torture Trial of Louisa Calderon (1806)" focuses specially on the prominent case of the former British colonial governor of Trinidad, Brigadier-General Thomas Picton and his trial for the torture of the young, free woman of color Louisa Calderon. It argues that the case allowed Britons to link issues of imperial regime and colonial subjects to the masculine treatment of colonial women of color. Colonial elites and metropolitan reformers strategically employed visual and written portrayals of Louisa Calderon and Thomas Picton's free, mixed-race mistress, Rosetta Smith, to debate control over the colonial periphery and its subjects (strategies of militant control and sexual dominance vs. imperial reform and sexual restraint). This resulted in a debate over the character of black women and white men, a debate that posited a set of opposed fictional icons: the pure, vulnerable, black woman in need of protection from depraved and overly powerful corrupt white men or the evil temptresses from whom white society/white men needed protection.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Goddard, Lynette Patricia. "Staging black feminisms(s): representations of race, gender and sexuality in plays by black British women playwrights 1979-1999." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424207.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Morrison, Shannon M. "Navigating Secret Societies: Black Women in the Commercial Airline Industry." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587030922882857.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Van, Zelm Antoinette G. "On the front lines of freedom: Black and white women shape emancipation in Virginia, 1861-1890." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623923.

Full text

Abstract:

Black and white women in Virginia were on the front lines of the struggle over emancipation during and after the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1890, both former slave and former slaveholding women shaped black freedom and thereby re-invented themselves as citizens within their local communities.;Focusing on women who lived in the southeastern and south-central regions of Virginia, this study expands the narrative of Southern history to encompass the vigorous contest between black and white women over the meanings of slavery, the war, and freedom. Based on federal records and private papers, this dissertation assesses women's ideas about the end of slavery and the creation of a free society.;Emancipation was revolutionary for black women and profoundly affected the lives of many white women. For freedwomen, it meant greater control over their family and working lives, education, and community organization, as well as new access to public spaces and a sense of themselves as American citizens. For former slaveholding women, emancipation meant financial loss, fewer household workers, and reduced control over those domestic servants, in addition to a re-appraisal of the benefits of slavery and a stark representation of the destruction of the Confederacy.;As workers and employers after the war, Virginia women transformed the white-owned domestic workplace into one of the most significant and highly politicized venues for negotiating freedom. as skilled workers, cooks and washerwomen gained the most independence among servants. While both workers and employers sought to retain some aspects of slavery, employers' maternalism increasingly came into conflict with workers' communal resourcefulness.;While they interacted as workers and employers, black and white women led separate lives in the civic realm. They did, however, take part in some similar activities there. as engaged citizens, both freedwomen and former mistresses contributed to the public creation of communal histories of the war by participating, respectively, in Emancipation Day celebrations and Lost Cause commemorations. In these civic rituals, Virginia women emphasized racial solidarity and affirmed their national and regional allegiances. The orchestrated transition from slavery to freedom within civic spaces paralleled the struggle to define emancipation within individual households.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Galiani, Alessandra. "The representation of black women in the Harlem riots of 1943 and 1964 : A comparative analysis." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40415.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Spruill, Denise Lynn Pate. ""From the tub to the club": black women and activism in the Midwest, 1890-1920." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6294.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the activism of African-American club women in Iowa during the early twentieth century. As early as 1891, prior to the founding of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACW) in 1896 and Iowa Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (IACW) in 1902, black women met in various cities throughout the state to discuss the need for education within the black community, proper etiquette for young women, current events, arts and culture, while planning community service activities. In the upper Midwest, clubs and early community activism served as a conduit for black women, providing a venue for them to hone their organizational skills, create networks, recruit members and develop programs to aid in racial uplift, increasing their authority and power as women in their communities. Through education, health, and welfare reform, club women created new forms of citizenship as they tried to make the needs of black Iowans a legitimate political concern for the state. Significantly, this occurred prior to and laid the ground work for the organization of regional branches of the Afro-American Council and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). My dissertation will show that the independent activism and organizing of black Iowa club women gave them the ability to influence other national organizations where women’s leadership was suppressed. In 1917, the United States War Department named Fort Des Moines, located on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, as the first World War I training camp for black officers in the country. Working with 1200 black servicemen and their migrant families, local African-American women harnessed both club and organizational capabilities to perform some of the most hands on war work in the United States, creating black “Company Mother’s” groups and Red Cross auxiliaries. My research shows that African-American women in Iowa had greater access to state NAACP leadership positions than their sisters in larger urban areas throughout the country. From 1915-1920, black women injected local goals and objectives into the agendas of NAACP branches throughout the state. Exploring the impact of race, class, gender and migration on African-Americans in the Midwest, my dissertation will challenge historians to rethink how they frame their approach to black women’s activism by demonstrating the centrality of region to the history of African-American women’s leadership and race work. This dissertation is a social cultural history that draws upon the activism of individuals and organizational histories. A great challenge was piecing together the history of the eight clubs that existed 1891-1902, prior to the IACW. These clubs do not have any archived sources. I layered information found in issues of the Iowa Bystander from 1896 to 1902 with extensive research in national and state census data to better understand the lives of these women, who were also wives, mothers, and migrants. After the founding of the IACW in 1902, published primary material (annual meeting minutes, newspapers, bulletins, speeches) allowed me to recreate the conversations within African-American communities, as well as the dialogue between whites and blacks. I used the papers and national records of the IACW, NACW, and NAACP to identify club members as well as agendas, goals, outreach and fundraising efforts of various organizations, offering national and regional perspectives of the challenges faced by club women, while providing insight to conversations and concerns from the national to state level.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Taylor, Shockley Megan Newbury. ""We, too, are Americans": African American women, citizenship, and civil rights activism in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284135.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation explores the activities of middle- and working-class African American women during and immediately after World War II in Detroit and Richmond, Virginia, in order to examine how World War II enabled African American women to negotiate new state structures in order to articulate citizenship in a way that located them within the state as contributors to the war effort and legitimated their calls for equality. This study provides a new understanding of the groundwork that lay behind the civil rights activism of the 1950s and 1960s. By looking at African American women's wartime protest and exploring how those women created templates for activism and networks for the dissemination of new discourses about citizenship, it reveals the gendered roots of the civil rights movement. This study uses a cross-class analysis within a cross-regional analysis in order to understand how African American women of different socioeconomic levels transformed their relationship with the state in order to use state structures to gain equality in diverse regions of the country. Class and region framed African American women's possibilities for activism. In both Detroit and Richmond, women's class positions and local government structures affected how African American women constructed claims to citizenship and maintained activist strategies to promote equality. This study finds that the new discourse and programs of middle-class African American women, linked with the attempts of working-class women to gain and retain jobs and better living conditions, contributed to a new sense of militancy and urgency within the civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s. By attempting to claim their rights based solely on their status as citizens within the state, African American women greatly contributed to the groundwork and the ideology of the more aggressive civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. African American women's initial forays into desegregating restaurants, jobs, transportation, and housing created the momentum for the entire African American community's struggle for equality.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Pugh-Patton, Danette Marie. "Images and lyrics: Representations of African American women in blues lyrics written by black women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3235.

Full text

Abstract:

The purpose of this thesis is to examine to what extent representations of double jeopardy and the stereotypical images of African American females: Mammy, Matriarch, Sapphire, and Strong Black Woman emerge in the blues lyrics of Alberta Hunter, Gertrude "Ma" Rainy, Memphis Minnie, and Victoria Spivey, using the theoretical framework of Black feminist rhetorical critique. The findings in this research entail several meanings regarding the lives of African American women during the 1920s and 1930s. Representations of racism, sexism, and classism also appear in the theme of relationships with various subthemes. The focus of this study is to explore the evolution of Black music and examine the role women have played in both the development and advancement of the blues genre. Additionally, the study will explore various concepts of cultural identity development in order to establish the process of how identity is constructed and negotiated in African Americans specifically African American women.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Zauditu-Selassie, Kokahvah. "Ancestral presence and epic fulfillment in Toni Morrison 's Beloved and Sula." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2086.

Full text

Abstract:

The focal point of this study is the examination of ancestral remembrance and the effects of that presence on the epic fulfillmeht of the female heroic characters in two of Toni Morrison’s novels Beloved and Sula. As a comparative study, this dissertation concerns itself with identifying the common cultural assumptions, values and traditions attributed to the African world and the African Americans illustrated in two of Morrison’s novels. To this end, the ontological principles that unify African world culture and the accompanying cosmological categories delineate the discussion of motifs, images, and archetypes employed by Morrison to invoke the ancestral presence. Moreover, this study explores the use of ritual defined by deliberate rhetoric that frames apocalyptic ideas and advances epic achievement.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Hunter, Ron Jr. "How Martin Luther King, Jr.'s worldview-leadership transformed an engrained culture." Thesis, Dallas Baptist University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10255346.

Full text

Abstract:

Leaders help organizations and cultures not desirous of change to undergo cultural shifts. The current study conducts a textual analysis of six speeches delivered from Montgomery to Memphis in order to extrapolate the sources of his worldview and identify the major arguments used in the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. who shaped the Civil Rights Movement, an engrained culture, and morally shaped others to lead cultural change. King used a worldview-leadership style to offer cognitive and emotional suppositions to challenge centuries-old presuppositions within both Caucasian and African American cultures. Significant developmental influences changed King’s outlook, and as a result he communicated to audiences how to change their worldview. As a young boy, King was determined to hate white people but instead he grew into a reformer committed to nonviolent agape love and articulated moral argumentation from a mosaic of influences. As he encountered multiple cultures of stakeholders each possessing their own set of presuppositions, King expressed a pragmatic patchwork of nearly 70 identifiable sources that appear as core values within his speeches. Forensic textual analysis highlights his core values, consciously and subconsciously expressed, and how he passed the influences along to the audiences. His speeches championed lessons learned from parents, grandparents, experiences, professors, theologians, and Western thinkers to suggest more than a legislative shift but one where society as whole began to adopt a better moral direction.

Keywords: Leadership, leader, Martin Luther King Jr., change, Civil Rights Movement, worldview, speech, engrained culture, textual analysis, communication, presuppositions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Farmer, Ashley Dawn. "What You've Got is a Revolution: Black Women's Movements for Black Power." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10817.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines African American women's gender-specific theorizing and intellectual production during the black power era. Previous histories of this period have focused primarily on the theoretical and activist roles of African American men. This study shows how black women radicals shaped the movement through an examination of their written and cultural production within various black power political ideologies, including cultural nationalism, revolutionary nationalism, and black power feminism.
African and African American Studies

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Brown, Rebekah A. S. "The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Gondek, Abby S. "Jewish Women’s Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations of Black Women in the African Diaspora, 1930-1980." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3575.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates how Jewish women social scientists relationally established their gendered-racialized subjectivities and theories about race-gender-sexuality-class through their portrayals of black women’s sexuality and family structures in the African Diaspora: the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, and the U.K. The central women in this study: Ellen Hellmann, Ruth Landes, Hilda Kuper, and Ruth Glass, were part of the same “political generation,” born in 1908-1912, coming of age when Jews of European descent experienced an ambivalent and conditional assimilation into whiteness, a form of internal colonization. I demonstrate how each woman’s familial origin point in Europe, parental class and political orientations, were important factors influencing her later personal/professional networks and social science theorizing about women of color. However, other important factors included the national racial context, the political affiliations of her partners, her marital status and her transracial fieldwork experiences. One of the main problems my work addresses is how the internal colonization process in differing nations within the Jewish diaspora differently affected and positioned Jewish social scientists from divergent class and political affiliations. Gendering Aamir Mufti’s primarily male-oriented argument, I demonstrate how Jewish internal divergences serve as an example that highlights the lack of uniformity within any “identity” group, and the ways that minority groups, like Jews, use measures of “abnormal” gender and sexuality, to create internal exiled minorities in order to try to assimilate into the majority colonizing culture. My dissertation addresses three problems within previous studies of Jewish social scientists by creating a gendered analysis of the history of Jews in social science, an analysis of Jewish subjectivity within histories of women (who were Jewish) in social science, and a critique of the either-or assumption that Jewishness necessarily equated with a “radical” anti-racist approach or a “colonizing” stance toward black communities. The data collection followed a mixed methods approach, incorporating archival research, ethnographic object analysis, site visits in Brazil and South Africa, consultations with library, archive and museum professionals, and interviews with scholars connected to the core women in the study.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Umoren, Imaobong Denis. "Becoming global race women : the travels and networks of black female activist-intellectuals, 1920-1966." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1bf261a0-a0c0-4815-8603-e1468fe007e2.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis explores how a group of Caribbean and African American activist-intellectuals became global race women in the early to mid twentieth century. Global race women, is the term I use to describe middle-class, public women of African ancestry who were committed to aiding the progress of the darker races, especially, but not exclusively, blacks. They frequently travelled, both literally and imaginatively, which allowed them to develop a cosmopolitan sensibility, forge multiracial coalitions with Africans, Asians, Caribbeans, and Europeans, and practice transnational activism. Their globalism saw them identify, think, and act on a global basis that was tied to the global African diaspora. But it did not distract them from the local considerations that shaped their politics. For global race women, the global and the local were intertwined. This study centres on three protagonists including the Jamaican writer and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-1965), the Martiniquan journalist Paulette Nardal (1896-1985), and the American anthropologist and writer Eslanda Robeson (1895-1965). While the three women did not call themselves global race women, they embodied its characteristics. Their identities as global race women saw them grapple with the race and gender problem as a global phenomenon. They participated in race-based civil rights organisations, anti-fascist campaigns, the League of Nations, United Nations, feminist, and women’s groups. By embracing a range of strategies, they forged networks that crossed ideological, religious, racial, and gendered divisions. The original contribution this thesis makes is the argument that physical or imagined travel and overlapping global social and professional networks were critical to the practice of becoming a global race woman. The significance of this work lays in its placing of black women at the centre of globally connected conversations about cosmopolitanism, anti-fascism, transnational activism, feminism, the end of empires, and the long global freedom struggle between the 1920s and 1960s.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Anim-Addo, Joan Lilian. "Breaking the silence : first-wave Anglophone African-Caribbean women novelists and dynamics of history, language and publication." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368878.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Yee, Shirley J. "Black women abolitionists : a study of gender and race in the American antislavery movement, 1828-1860 /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148733599290494.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Iler, Sarah M. "The Libertarian Sage: The Conservatism of George S. Schuyler." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289585457.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Robinson, Rebecca J. "American Sportswear: A Study Of The Origins And Women Designers From The 1930’s To The 1960’s." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1054926324.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Tuft, Paige. ""They Are Hiring the White Women but They Won't Hire the Colored Women": Black Women Confront Racism and Sexism in the Richmond Shipyards During World War II." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4285.

Full text

Abstract:

During World War II, black women migrated largely out of the South to take advantage of the growing defense industries in California. Black women flocked to the shipbuilding industry in Richmond for the great economic opportunities industrial jobs offered. What they found when they arrived and attempted to secure jobs in the shipyards hardly lived up to their dreams and expectations. Black women found themselves faced with dual discrimination due to their race and gender. The shortage of available manpower opened up the traditionally white male shipbuilding industry to women and minorities but it did not guarantee them equal treatment or employment opportunities. Women faced hostile treatment from their male coworkers, especially in the form of sexual harassment, while black workers experienced racist comments and behavior. Black women experienced both gender and racial harassment. Yet, they chose not to fight against the interpersonal discrimination they experienced in the workplace. Black women fought against the dual discrimination that hindered their employment opportunities. The shipyards and the union worked together to limit the employment opportunities of black women. They practiced many methods of discrimination that denied black women jobs. The union used residency requirements and a quota system to limit black women’s access to shipyard jobs. This discrimination extended beyond hiring practices. The shipyards and union worked together to keep black women out of skilled occupations regardless of their training and prior experience. They also denied black women access to supervisory positions. These discriminatory policies and practices severely limited the employment opportunities of black women but they continuously fought for greater access to jobs and sought government support for their efforts. As black women confronted this double burden due to their race and gender, they fought most strongly against discrimination that affected their employment opportunities. They migrated to the Bay Area to take advantage of industrial jobs in the shipbuilding industry and they did everything in their power to acquire these jobs despite the many forms of discrimination that attempted to thwart their plans.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Mathee, Mohamed Shaid. "Muftîs and the women of Timbuktu : history through Timbuktu's Fatwās, 1907-1960." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13446.

Full text

Abstract:

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-279).
This dissertation is about the social history of Timbuktu during the colonial era (1894 - 1960). This dissertation, firstly, takes fatwās from Timbuktu's archives as its historical source, a source the aforementioned scholars paid very little attention to or consciously ignored. Although fatwās are legal documents, this dissertation shows that fatwās are a historical source. Secondly, it looks at the history of ordinary men and women in their everyday lives.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Boynton, Virginia Ruth. ""It surely is grand living your own life" : the search for autonomy of urban midwestern black and white working class women 1920-1950 /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487862972136316.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Graham, Daria-Yvonne J. "Intersectional Leadership: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Servant Leadership by Black Women in Student Affairs." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1523721754342058.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Mkhize, Gabisile. "African Women| An Examination of Collective Organizing Among Grassroots Women in Post Apartheid South Africa." Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3710319.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines how poor black South African women in rural areas organize themselves to address their poverty situations and meet their practical needs – those that pertain to their responsibilities as grandmothers, mothers, and community members – and assesses their organizations' effectiveness for meeting women's goals. My research is based on two groups that are members of the South African Rural Women's Movement. They are the Sisonke Women's Club Group (SSWCG) and the Siyabonga Women's Club Group (SBWCG). A majority of these women are illiterate and were de jure or de facto heads of households. Based on interviews and participant observation, I describe and analyze the strategies that these women employ in an attempt to alleviate poverty, better their lives, and assist in the survival of their families, each other, and the most vulnerable members of their community. Their strategies involve organizing in groups to support each other's income-generating activities and to help each other in times of emergency. Their activities include making floor mats, beading, sewing, baking, and providing caregiving for members who are sick and for orphans. I conclude that, although their organizing helps meet practical needs based on their traditional roles as women, it has not contributed to meeting strategic needs – to their empowerment as citizens or as heads of households.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Bayrakceken, Tuzel Gokce. "Being And Becoming Professional: Work And Liberation Through Women." Phd thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605746/index.pdf.

Full text

Abstract:

This study focuses on the relationship between women&rsquo
s work and women&rsquo
s liberation and emancipation from male domination by examining, within a feminist epistemological and methodological standpoint, the personal and occupational experiences of women doing professional work in Turkey. The aim of this study is to make a conceptual discussion by referring to the field of professional work and the particular form it takes in the Turkish case. Patriarchy at professional work, which operates differently than it does in waged work, has been approached with a socialist feminist standpoint. However, socialist feminist conceptualisation of patriarchy at work has been interpreted with a special focus on different forms of patriarchy. According to this, patriarchy is an incomplete formation which manifests itsef in different actual forms. Due to its changing and fluid nature it is maintained in different social practices. This interpretation of patriarchy with the notions of "
manifestation&rdquo
and &ldquo
practice&rdquo
provides for conceptualising the contextual features of patriarchy without being lost or dispersed in the contextuality of the patriarchal operations. It connects different contexts that arise from regional, religional, ethnic, racial, or class-based effects or social, economic, political and historical conditions without reducing them to a generalised sameness. In this context, women&rsquo
s becoming and being professionals in Turkey in the early republican period appears to be a significant example. In Turkey, Kemalism appears to be the practice which determines not only the professions but also the conditions of women&rsquo
s entery to the public realm as educated professionals. In this connection patriarchy is manifested within the interacting practices of professionalism and Kemalism. As the research design of oral history narratives of 18 women and some other biographic and historical sources indicates, women internalised professional values above and beyond Kemalist values together with their patriarchal contents. Although being professional has a certain liberating effect on women&rsquo
s lives they had to deal with patriarchal manifestations within the practices of professionalisma and Kemalism.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Harrison, Olivia N. "Representing Black Women and Love: A critical interpretative study of heavy exposure to VH1’s Love and Hip-Hop." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1562923337640239.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Robinson, Alicia M. "ACADEMICALLY SUCCESSFUL AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AN EXAMINATION OF MOTIVATION AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1460632660.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

O'Dwyer, Kathryn A. "‘Posed with the Greatest Care’: Photographic Representations of Black Women Employed by the Work Progress Administration in New Orleans, 1936-1941." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2630.

Full text

Abstract:

For decades, scholars have debated the significance of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), emphasizing its political, economic, and artistic impact. This historiography is dominated by the accomplishments of white men. In an effort to highlight the long-neglected legions of black women who contributed to WPA projects and navigated the agency’s discriminatory practices, this paper will examine WPA operations in New Orleans where unemployment was the highest in the urban south, black women completed numerous large-scale projects, and white supremacist notions guided relief protocol. By analyzing the New Orleans WPA Photography collection, along with newspapers, government documents, and oral histories, a new perspective of the WPA emerges to illuminate the experiences of marginalized black women workers, illustrate how the legacies of slavery and effects of segregation impact black women’s employment opportunities, and highlight how black women made substantive contributions to public projects in the face of societal constraints.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Wolfe, Andrea P. "Black mothers and the nation : claiming space and crafting signification for the black maternal body in American women's narratives of slavery, reconstruction, and segregation, 1852-2001." CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1560845.

Full text

Abstract:

“Black Mothers and the Nation” tracks the ways that texts produced by United States women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries position the black maternal body as subversive to the white patriarchal power structure for which it labored and that has acted in many ways to abject it from the national body. This study points to the ways in which the black mother’s subversive potential has been repeatedly, violently, and surreptitiously circumscribed in some quarters even as it succeeds in others. Several important thematic threads run throughout the chapters of this study, sometimes appearing in clear relationship to the texts discussed and sometimes underwriting their analysis in less obvious ways: the functioning of the black maternal body to both support the construction of and undermine white womanhood in slavery and in the years beyond; the reclamation of the maternal body as a site of subversion and nurturance as well as erotic empowerment; the resistance of black mother figures to oppressive discourses surrounding their bodies and reproduction; and, finally, the figurative and literal location of the black mother in a national body politic that has simultaneously used and abjected it over the course of centuries. Using these lenses, this study focuses on a grouping of women’s literature that depicts slavery and its legacy for black women and their bodies. The narratives discussed in this study explore the intersections of the issues outlined above in order to get at meaningful expressions of black maternal identity. By their very nature as representations of historical record and regional and national realities, these texts speak to the problematic placement of black maternal bodies within the nation, beginning in the antebellum era and continuing through the present; in other words, these slavery, Reconstruction, and segregation narratives connect personal and physical experiences of maternity to the national body.
The subordination of embodied power : sentimental representations of the black maternal body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Recuperating the body : the black mother's reclamation of embodied presence and her reintegration into the black community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The narrative power of the black maternal body : resisting and exceeding visual economies of discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Mapping black motherhood onto the nation : the black maternal body and the body politic in Lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Alice Randall's The wind done gone -- Michelle Obama in context.
Access to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only
Department of English

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Fry, Jennifer Reed. "'Our girls can match 'em every time': The Political Activities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1912-1941." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/61373.

Full text

Abstract:

History
Ph.D.
This dissertation challenges the dominant interpretation in women's history of the 1920s and 1930s as the "doldrums of the women's movement," and demonstrates that Philadelphia's political history is incomplete without the inclusion of African American women's voices. Given their well-developed bases of power in social reform, club, church, and interracial groups and strong tradition of political activism, these women exerted tangible pressure on Philadelphia's political leaders to reshape the reform agenda. When success was not forthcoming through traditional political means, African American women developed alternate strategies to secure their political agenda. While this dissertation is a traditional social and political history, it will also combine elements of biography in order to reconstruct the lives of Philadelphia's African American political women. This work does not describe a united sisterhood among women or portray this period as one of unparalleled success. Rather, this dissertation will bring a new balance to political history that highlights the importance of local political activism and is at the same time sensitive to issues of race, gender, and class. Central to this study will be the development of biographical sketches for the key African American women activists in Philadelphia, reconstructing the challenges they faced in the political arena, as feminists and as reformers. Enfranchisement did not immediately translate into political power, as black women's efforts to achieve their goals were often frustrated by racial tension with white women and gender divisions within the African American community. This dissertation also contributes to the historical debate regarding the shifting partisan alliance of the African American community. African Americans not intimately tied to the club movement or machine politics spearheaded the move away from the Republicans. They did so not out of economic reasons or as a result of Democratic overtures but because of the poor record of the Republicans on racial issues. Crystal Bird Fauset's rise to political power, as the first African American woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, provides important insight into Philadelphia Democratic politics, the African American community, and the extensive organizational and political networks woven by African American women.
Temple University--Theses

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Silva, Maria Saraiva da. "The knowledgeÂs transmitted advancing of black women in CearÃ above seventy years. A look about their histories and memories." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11960.

Full text

Abstract:

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior
ABSTRACT The academic literature production in the state of CearÃ, in their historiography conjuncture, presents the black population in lower numbers. When conducting scientific research about the situation of black people in this state and relate them to population and cultural census research, the data contradict the writings of historiography. In this line of thinking, we conducted the research presented here in order to show that other than the common sense phrase "in CearÃ has not black", our interlocutors, in their memories, allow us to meet the establishment of histories and cultures of African bases in the state, favoring us the reunion of a collective memory of Afrobrazilian. The option for dealing with black women over seventy years has to be exactly old men (women) that, in the tradition of various cultures, transmitted orally the knowledge and experience accumulated throughout life. From life stories of black old women, expressed by orality, we obtained the information that responded to problematization about what is to be black woman in CearÃ society. To this study we performed a total of three interviews in order to observe and analyze what role of these black ladies in society in terms of memory. This work was comprisement the city of Fortaleza and was conducted with the contribution of black women over seventy years, mothers of black activists in social movement and residents in the capital of the state of CearÃ. In the social and political aspects, we present the interviewees in various stages of life and the thought of each one about the participation of hers sons (daughters) in the black social movements taking presupposed the ascertainment of conjunctures enabled the formation of their identities of black women. In this context, we describes about the methods that this ladies used to keep alive the collective memory Afrocearense and understand in what sense the collective memory and personal stories make possible a reinterpretation of the history of the black population of CearÃ . The paths followed for the presentation of research results led us to understand that the social history stored in the memory of people considered common contains important information that led us to consider that, from the history of the social bases refer to events in the political and social distorted by history, as in the case of absence of the black population in the state of CearÃ.
RESUMO A produÃÃo literÃria acadÃmica no Estado do CearÃ, em sua conjuntura historiogrÃfica, apresenta a populaÃÃo negra em nÃmeros inferiores. Ao se realizar investigaÃÃo cientÃfica sobre a situaÃÃo de povo negro neste estado e relacionÃ-los a pesquisa censitÃria populacional e cultural os dados contrariam os escritos da historiografia. Com este entendimento, realizamos a pesquisa que aqui apresentamos com o objetivo de mostrar que diferente da frase senso comum âno CearÃ nÃo tem negroâ nossas interlocutoras por suas memÃrias nos permitiram conhecer o estabelecimento de histÃrias e culturas de bases africanas no Estado, favorecendo-nos o reencontro de uma memÃria coletiva afrodescendente. A opÃÃo por tratar com mulheres negras acima de setenta anos se deu por serem exatamente os (as) velhos (as) que, na tradiÃÃo de vÃrias culturas, transmitem atravÃs da oralidade os conhecimentos e experiÃncias acumulados por toda a vida. Das histÃrias de vida de mulheres pretas e velhas, expressadas pela oralidade obtivemos as informaÃÃes que responderam a problematizaÃÃo sobre, o que Ã ser mulher negra na sociedade cearense, a partir das lembranÃas provenientes de suas memÃrias. Para este estudo realizamos um total de trÃs entrevistas no sentido de observar e analisar qual o papel dessas senhoras negras em sociedade no tocante da memÃria. Esta dissertaÃÃo teve por campo a cidade de Fortaleza e foi realizada com a contribuiÃÃo de mulheres negras acima de setenta anos, mÃes de ativistas do movimento social negro e residentes na capital do Estado do CearÃ. Nos aspectos sociais e polÃticos apresentamos as entrevistadas em diversas fases da vida e o pensamento de cada uma delas sobre a participaÃÃo dos (as) filhos (as) nos movimentos sociais negros tendo por pressuposto a averiguaÃÃo das conjunturas que possibilitaram a formaÃÃo de suas identidades de mulheres negras. Neste contexto, discorremos sobre os mÃtodos que as senhoras em questÃo utilizaram para manter viva a memÃria coletiva afrocearense e compreendermos em que sentido a memÃria coletiva e histÃrias pessoais possibilitariam uma releitura da histÃria da populaÃÃo negra do CearÃ. Os caminhos seguidos para a apresentaÃÃo dos resultados da investigaÃÃo nos levaram a compreender que a histÃria social guardada na memÃria de pessoas consideradas comuns contÃm informaÃÃes importantes que nos levaram a considerar que a histÃria proveniente das bases sociais nos rementem a acontecimentos polÃtico-sociais desvirtuados pela histÃria, como no caso da ausÃncia de populaÃÃo negra no estado do CearÃ.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Prater, Angela Denise. "The Fattening House: A Narrative Analysis of the Big, Black and Beautiful Body Subjectivity Constituted On Large African American Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1223829051.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Wheeler, Durene Imani. "Sisters in the movement: an analysis of schooling, culture, and education from 1940-1970 in three black women’s autobiographies." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086187325.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Black women`s history'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles