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The Greatest Generation Revisited: Harlem at the Crossroads of Politics, Culture, and Black Women's Biography
Gill examines narratives on African American women's significance with regard to American history, politics, culture and justice.
Journal Article
To turn the whole world over : black women and internationalism
\"To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women's Internationalism in Historical Perspective represents the first scholarly attempt to assemble the most recent works on black women's internationalism during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It highlights the range and complexity of black women's global engagements and centers their experiences as key historical actors in shaping internationalist movements and discourses from the 1870s to the 1970s. By analyzing the gendered contours of black internationalism, this collection of essays engages these two key questions: (a) how was black women's engagement in internationalism similar to and/or different from their male counterparts? (b) To what extent did black women merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and/or feminist concerns? Furthermore, the anthology calls for a re-conceptualization of black internationalism by asking how black women's lives and experiences alter the ways narratives of the global black freedom struggle are articulated. This anthology, then, does more than expand the paucity of scholarship on black women and internationalism. It is both an assessment of the field as well as an attempt to expand the contours of black internationalism theoretically, spatially, and temporally\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Civic Beauty: Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African American Female Entrepreneurship, 1900–1965
In 1957, when Bernice Robinson, a 41-year-old Charleston beautician, was asked to become the first teacher for the Highlander Folk School's Citizen Education program in the South Carolina Sea Islands, she was surprised, for she had neither experience as a teacher, nor a college education. These facts did not present a problem for Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander School; his main concern was that the Sea Islanders would have a teacher they could trust and who would respect them. In fact, for Horton, Robinson's profession was an asset. In his autobiography, he explained the strategic importance of using beauticians as leaders in civil rights initiatives, that the movement needed to build around black people who could stand up against white opposition, so black beauticians were very important. The author posits that the black beauty industry provides a fruitful site for exploring the social, political, and economic challenges experienced by black women throughout the twentieth century.
Journal Article
The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South
Kahrl highlights the very real struggles African Americans had with the federal government, white property and business owners, and the environment, without minimizing the ways contested coastal regions also served as sites of pleasure and enjoyment. Beginning with the entrepreneurial aspirations of African Americans just a few decades removed from enslavement, the first two chapters examine the rise of resorts catering to elite black populations.
Book Review
Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
Gill reviews Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life by Davarian L. Baldwin.
Book Review
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, by Susannah Walker, is reviewed.
Book Review
