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Black women in politics : demanding citizenship, challenging power, and seeking justice / edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

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Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxvii, 275 pages).
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Jordan-Zachery, Julia S., 1971- and Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude)
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Black women's political labor: an introduction / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd -- Black feminists doing intersectionality work -- Why political scientists don't study black women, but historians and sociologists do: on intersectionality and the remapping of the study of black political women / Nikol G. Alexander-floyd -- "I ain't your darn help" : black women as the help in intersectionality research in political science / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery -- Black feminist policy analysis -- The politics of black women's health in the U.K. : intersections of race, class and gender in policy, practice and research / Jenny Douglas -- Hiding in plain sight: black women felons reentering society / Keesha M. Middlemass -- An intersectionality-based policy analysis of how U.S. HIV/AIDS policy fails to "rescue" black orphans / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery -- Diasporic black women and the global political arena -- El pan, el poder y la política: the politics of bread-making in Honduras' Garifuna community / Kia M.Q. Hall -- Woman out of place: Portia Simpson-Miller and middle class politics in Jamaica / Maziki Thame -- "We want to set the world on fire" : Black nationalist women and diasporic politics in the new Negro world, 1940-1944 / Keisha N. Blain -- Discourses, movements, and representation -- Morrisonian democracy: the literary praxis of black feminist political engagement / Judylyn Ryan -- Illegitimate appetites: Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign as sexual regulation / Grace E. Howard -- "We always resist: trust black women" : black women's reproductive justice activism in the wake of healthcare reform.
Summary
This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other women of color. By extending beyond particular time periods, locations, and singular definitions of politics, Black Women in Politics sets itself apart in the field of women's and gender studies in three ways: by focusing on contemporary Black politics not only in the United States, but also the African Diaspora; by showcasing politics along a broad trajectory, including social movements, formal politics, public policy, media studies, and epistemology; and by including a multidisciplinary range of scholars, with a strong concentration of work by political scientists, a group whose work is often excluded or limited in edited collections. The final result expands our repertoire of methodological tools and concepts for discussing and assessing Black women's lives, the conditions under which they live, their labor, and the politics they enact to improve their circumstances.
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9781438470955 (electronic bk.)
1438470959 (electronic bk.)
9781438470931
1438470932
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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