Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics

University Press of Mississippi eBooks · 2024-01-18

Ashley Farmer interviewed Amira Rose Davis regarding African American female athletes’ role in making sports arenas places of political and ideological protest. An assistant professor of African American studies at Penn State University, Davis examines the ideological and institutional development of recreational, competitive, and professional sporting opportunities for Black women in the United States. Her article “No League of Their Own: Baseball, Black Women, and the Politics of Representation” appeared in the May 2016 issue of <italic>Radical History Review</italic>. In her interview with Farmer, Davis elaborated on the challenges faced by African American female athletes who take a stand individually or collectively, and the degree to which their activism is marginalized in the popular mind by their male counterparts.

Book Reviews: Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime BaerM. H. (2023). Myths and Misunderstandings in White Collar Crime. Cambridge University Press220 pp.

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime · 2024-07-23

Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics:

University Press of Mississippi eBooks · 2023

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Gender studies

Disorderly Distribution

The Black Scholar · 2022-10-02

Toward an Archival Reckoning

The American Historical Review · 2022 · 3 citations

• Computer Science
• History
• Geography

Black Women's Internationalism: A New Frontier in Intellectual History

Modern Intellectual History · 2021 · 3 citations

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Gender studies

Published in Paris in 1928 under the leadership of Guadeloupean Maurice Satineau, the newspaper La dépêche africaine featured a mélange of African diasporic contributors from across the French colonies. Chief among them were the Afro-Martinican intellectuals and sisters Jane and Paulette Nardal. It was here that Jane Nardal published her now famous essay “Internationalisme noir,” introducing the idea of “black internationalism” into popular parlance. Nardal documented a new understanding of blackness and collectivity amid post-World War I globalization. Just as wartime had broken down barriers among Europeans and white Americans, so too had it fostered the “sentiment” among black people from the around the world that they “belong[ed] to one and the same race.” Introducing and reifying terms such as “Afro Latino” and “African American” into French and English vernaculars, Nardal focused on black people's efforts to rhetorically and ideologically link the African diaspora while also reconciling these new identities with the “ancient traditions” of Africa. The result: one of the first efforts to define black internationalism as an ideology, worldview, and political practice in a moment in which black people the world over were trying to negotiate the modernizing world and their place in it.

Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South

2021-02-10

“Long Live African Women Wherever They Are!”

2020-04-30 · 1 citations

Looking to foster ties with African women abroad, the East Sisterhood—the women’s division of the organization—engaged in an ambitious fundraising campaign to send Hill to the All-Africa Women’s Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Delegates’ prescriptions for women to invest their energies in “Pan-African solidarities” and “concrete” efforts to eliminate racism created openings for women to develop new understandings of Pan-Africanism rooted in their lived experiences with racism and imperialism and built on present political consensus rather than identifications with historical abstractions. Delegates envisioned this unity as “characterized by [women’s] mutual support and leadership in all spheres—home, battlefield, workforce, and community.” They also suggested that Black women reaffirm their solidarity with “African women, and men, toward the end of self-determination and a strong united Africa by strengthening their ‘commitment to and participation in the Pan-African liberation struggle’ and by making “concrete moves to eliminate racism, capitalism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism.

"Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression": Black Women, Black Power, and the Black Women's United Front, 1970–1976

Journal of women's history · 2020-01-01

This article analyzes the intellectual development and organizational activities of a nationalist, feminist, and socialist collective called the Black Women United Front (BWUF). Charting the rise and fall of the group from 1970 to 1976, the article begins with an analysis of the collective's origins in the Congress of African People (CAP), a cultural nationalist organization. It then documents the BWUF's organizational and ideological evolution, offering an assessment of how the group's intersectional platform and programs caused CAP and other major Black Power-era leaders to adopt more gender-conscious approaches to Black liberation. By reinserting the BWUF into histories of the Black Power era, the article complicates long-held assumptions about the intractable nature of Black Power sexism and the incompatibility of feminist and Black Power thought. It also illustrates how, through groups like the BWUF, Black women developed intersectional approaches to liberation within major Black Power organizations.

How Gender Affects the Experience of Archival Research and Field Work

Modern American History · 2019-07-01

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