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Shirley Chisholm in her own words : speeches and writings
\"In the midst of her groundbreaking career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, 'Everyone--with the exception of the black woman herself--has been interpreting the black woman.' Edited by the leading scholar dedicated to the study of Chisholm's legacy, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words gives readers a rare opportunity to engage with the Congresswoman's powerful ideas through the power of her own voice. The introduction by Dr. Zinga A. Fraser, Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism and author of a forthcoming book on Chisholm and Black Congressional women's political legacy, provides insight into Chisholm's role as a public intellectual and Black feminist during the Civil Rights and Black Power era\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Shirley Chisholm
A staunch proponent of breaking down racial and gender barriers, Shirley Chisholm had the esteemed privilege of being a pioneer in many aspects of her life. She was the first African American woman from Brooklyn elected to the New York State legislature and the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968. She also made a run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972. Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment, access to education, and equal pay for all American minority groups, this book explores the life of a remarkable woman in the context of twentieth-century urban America and the tremendous social upheaval that occurred after World War II.
About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read', featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.
Introduction 1. Barbados 2. Brooklyn 3. All Politics is Local 4. Black Power 5. New York State Assemblywoman 6. I Am Woman 7. An Unquiet Congresswoman 8. Testing the Presidential Waters 9. On the Chisholm Trail 10. Political and Personal Transformations 11. Conclusion
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The highest glass ceiling : women's quest for the American presidency
\"A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Historic firsts : how symbolic empowerment changes U.S. politics /
\"The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other 'historic firsts': Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988. While unsuccessful, these campaigns were significant, as they rallied American voters across various racial, ethnic, and gender groups. One can also argue that they heightened the electoral prospects of future candidates. Can 'historic firsts' bring formerly politically inactive people (those who previously saw no connection between campaigns and their own lives) into the electoral process, making it both relevant and meaningful?\"--Amazon.com.
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Jeffries: ‘House Democrats fight for the people’
On Nov. 30, House Democrats elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) as their leader succeeding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.).
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Shirley Chisholm : catalyst for change, 1926-2005
\"A staunch proponent of breaking down racial and gender barriers, Shirley Chisholm had the esteemed privilege of being a pioneer in many aspects of her life. She was the first African American woman elected to the New York State legislature and, later, the United States House of Representatives. She also made a run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972. Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment, access to education, and equal pay for all American minority groups, this book explores the life of a remarkable woman in the context of twentieth century urban America and the tremendous social upheaval that occurred after World War II. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a \"good read,\" featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Getting Nurses on Boards
While the rationale for including nurses may be clear to nurses and nurse leaders, it is not necessarily clear to those outside of nursing. Nursing leadership needs to demand participation in decisions that will affect the nursing service.
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Public Health Meets the Problem of the Color Line
In her memoirs, Shirley Chisholm-the first woman to stand for the Democratic Party nomination and the first Black person to run for the US presidency-wrote, \"Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. [...]there are those who claim racism is not the core issue; instead poverty is. SCIENTIFIC \"OBJECTIVITY\" Much is conflated when medicine and public health attempt to fly below the radar of politics by donning the armor of scientific objectivity-guarding the faith by positing the cold logic of the scientific method. Science is not all methodology: one simply cannot judge the prudence of a whole ecology of funders, research proposals, theory building, conferences, journals, institutes, and applications by reducing it to the scientific method. \"1(p175) ^Jpu THE 2016 CALDERONE PRIZE HONORING DR. MARY BASSETT The Calderone Prize was created to shine a spotlight on the Field by awarding and thanking transformative public health professionals at the peak of their careers with a prize of exceptional gravitas; to shake things up a bit and focus our thinking on new ideas via the Calderone Lecture; to inspire young professionals like our Calderone Junior Faculty awardees who are at the beginning of their own potentially transformative careers; and to give public health students who are just starting out some very good reasons to continue their studies and stay the course. Dr. Bassett heads up one of the best managed, most highly regarded, and most influential health departments in the...
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Race, Homeownership, Special Purpose Credit Programs, and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
The volatile nature of the issue is most recently evidenced by the Suprème Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows ofHarvard College (Students for Fair Admissions), which held unlawful the use of race as one among other criteria in college admissions.10 The Court's ruling has caused some stakeholders to ask whether race-conscious affirmative action lending under ECOA is via-ble.11 Under prevailing legal principles that are intact after Students for Fair Admissions, it remains the law that, in the right circumstances, race may be relied on to remedy conditions of discrimination, including in the context of programs that promote fair access to credit.12 This article explores the legal justification of race conscious affordable homeownership programs as a remedy for systemic discrimination. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the median net worth of white households in the region is $247,500. \"13 A year-long research erfort by HFE reinforces the conclusion that wealth disparities in Boston have their origin in racialized local, state, and fed-eral housing, urban renewal and highway construction policies, along with a nearly fifty-year public-private home mortgage lending partnership to exclude Black families from homeownership while at the same time extracting wealth from Black households and the racially identified neighborhoods in which they are segregated.14 Disparities in homeownership and household wealth are sustained through continued lending and housing discrimination. The selection criteria for the HFE units will therefore extend a preference to low-income households who identify as a people with origins in any of Africa's Black racial and ethnic groups, who cur-rently live in or previously lived in Roxbury or who are descended from individuals who lived in Roxbury between the years 1935 and 1991 and who are first-time homebuyers or victims of foreclosure.16 Roxbury was one of the region's target areas for urban renewal, lending discrimination, and highway construction.
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