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Colored no more : reinventing black womanhood in Washington, D.C.
\"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective identity inhabited by African American women seeking to transform themselves and their communities through demanding autonomy and equality for African American women. The New Negro woman invested in upending racial, gender, and class inequality and included race women, blues women, playwrights, domestics, teachers, mothers, sex workers, policy workers, beauticians, fortune tellers, suffragists, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. From these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces comes an urban, cultural history of the early twentieth century struggles for freedom and equality that marked the New Negro era in the nation's capital. Washington provided a unique space in which such a vision of equality could emerge and sustain. In the face of the continued pernicious effects of Jim Crow racism and perpetual and institutional racism and sexism, Lindsey demonstrates how African American women in Washington made significant strides towards a more equal and dynamic urban center. Witnessing the possibility of social and political change empowered New Negro women of Washington to struggle for the kind of city, nation, and world they envisioned in political, social, and cultural ways.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Colored No More
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression.Colored No Moretraces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban center.Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself. Upward mobility to equal citizenship for African American women encompassed challenging racial, gender, class, and sexuality status quos. Lindsey maps the intersection of these challenges and their place at the core of New Negro womanhood.
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Post-Ferguson: A “Herstorical” Approach to Black Violability
Despite a robust field of scholarship that focuses on African American women as activists challenging anti-Black racism, dominant narratives about racial justice movements, both historically and contemporarily, often pivot around Black men's activism and, more specifically, Black heterosexual men's activism.2 In her article \"Invisible Southern Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race, and Class,\" Bernice McNair Barnett explores the experiences of Southern Black women leaders and examines the continued noninclusion of these leaders in dominant historical narratives about civil rights leadership and activism.3 Although published in 1993, Barnett's analysis of the racism, classism, and sexism extant in social movement literature echoes what Garza sheds light on -attempts to remove or decenter Black women from being both creators and leaders in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In addition to uncovering herstories of African American women's activism, a growing body of work within Black women's history, Black gender studies, and Black queer studies is the exploration of Black women and girls, trans* people, and queer people as victims of anti-Black state violence.
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Ula Y. Taylor's \Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism\
Lindsey talks about Ula Y. Taylor's \"Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism,\" published in 1998, a moment that she identified as \"the eve of third wave,\" captured and detailed this suspicion, while providing a succinct overview of the waves of black feminism and an assessment of the state of black feminism at the end of the twentieth century. Taylor's specific investment in discussing the second and third waves of black feminism was a significant intervention into both black studies and women's and gender studies.
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Searching for Climax
In August 2013, the newly launched YouTube channel, All Def Digital, posted a video entitled “The Harriet Tubman Sextape.” Reactions to the tape were swift and overwhelmingly negative. Decrying the desecration of the iconic Tubman and the positing of sexual transactions as a liberatory tool for enslaved black women, responses to the digital short shed light upon uncomfortable and complicated interpretations of the role of sex, sexuality, sexual economies, and sexual violence played in black lives during chattel slavery. Situating Tubman at the center of these dialogues offers an opportunity to pose new questions about the erotic life of slavery.
This essay is a call to explore and a foundational excavation of the sexual lives of black women during slavery, and more specifically, historical narratives of pleasure. Grappling with the erotic lives of black women during slavery offers a new lens with which to comprehend the lived experience of chattel slavery. Uncovering sensation, intimate interiority, and erotic experiences challenges a historiographical approach rooted in a twentieth century black liberation ethos and demands that we take seriously the erotic subjectivities of black women during slavery as part of an emancipatory politics. Using “The Tubman Sextape” as a point of entry, this essay examines how to create erotic maps of Tubman, and black women during slavery more broadly by engaging the historiography of slavery, popular representations of bondage, and emergent theories and conceptualizations of erotics.
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INTRODUCTION
As the most recent iteration of Black freedom struggles in the United States, what is the story of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)? This special issue is interested both in the political life of the M4BL and in the stories of those who made this movement possible. We are interested in the critical moment of encounter, when because someone’s life was taken, a community’s life, an activist’s life, or our collective lives changed. From representations of maternal, familial, or communal grief to the sexual and gender politics which prescribe and proscribe how individual Black lives come to matter or not matter, this issue interrogates the politics of Black life and Black living. These interrogations are especially salient in a political moment where liberal humanist conceptions of “the human” fail to compel broad empathy and structural protection for the value of Black people. We collectively ponder: what does “life” mean in the context of M4BL and what is the fundamental meaning of “lives” when centering those on the margins? How has technology shaped the way we tell the stories of individual and collective Black lives? What tools does the Movement for Black Lives offer up to us, not only for reconceptualizing the social structures which shape Black living, but also for reconceptualizing our current understandings of Black life in the first place? How do we center healing, restoration, and transformative justice in our freedom and justice praxes? What forms of mourning and becoming emerge as a result of communal and activist encounters with police violence? What does a life lived in solidarity with other social movements around the globe, for instance in Brazil and Palestine, look like? In asking these questions, both the co-editors and the contributors seek to understand the life contexts and livelihoods of Black people living at the beginning of the 21st century. Although contemporary realities are deeply rooted in historical lived experiences, we have entered a unique era in anti-Black racial terror. These living stories must be told. This special issue is but one collective documentation of a wide range of stories from multiple frequencies of contemporary Black life, death, community, healing, freedom-dreaming, and working.
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\One Time for My Girls\: African-American Girlhood, Empowerment, and Popular Visual Culture
In this essay I examine how popular/public culture depicts African-American girlhood and adolescence. Primarily using a hip hop generation feminist theoretical framework, I discuss both the limitations and progressive possibilities of popular visual culture in representing African-American girlhood and adolescence. The essay moves from a discussion of a video that highlights the disempowering possibilities of mass, digital, and social media for black girls and adolescents to a discussion of two videos propelled by a black girl-centered discourse of empowerment. Each of the videos discussed offers insight into the lived experiences of African-American girls from historical, aesthetic, and expressive perspectives. I use visual media text analysis, hip hop generation feminist theory, and social and cultural theory to discuss how these videos contribute to the formation of a contemporary discourse of empowerment for black girls and adolescents. Ultimately, I assert the importance of popular/public culture for empowering black girls and adolescents, while acknowledging extant limitations and obstacles in mass, digital, and social media.
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Social Voices
Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly
Sills
Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand
at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S.
Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a
political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide
range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma
Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa
Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of
race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed
by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between
narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between
privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt
to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in
order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a
singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's
ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music.
Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how
singers and their songs equip us to process social change and
divergent opinions.
Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K.
Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B.
Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie
Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd
Titon, and Elijah Wald
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