Trends in Relative Earnings Gains by Black Women: Implications for the Future

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augustin Kwasi Fosu
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Earnings

From Point Zero to the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-654
Author(s):  
Helena Silvestre
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Future

This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupations for housing: the conflictual recuperation of parts of the territory to construct commons that nourish our resistance. This effort is necessary because we cannot look at Indigenous women—in defense of forests—or Black women—defending immaterial ancestral territories—without recognizing that the women of the favelas are the daughters of those other women, continuing their resistance and resignifying it in places that are close to us and our everyday lives.

Black cultural studies is intersectionality

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 833-839
Author(s):  
Marcus Johnson ◽  
Ralina L Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This article argues that Black cultural studies must be understood as an intersectional intervention of praxis. Grounding our field in the past, speaking from the present, and projecting to the future, we examine the transformational influence that Black feminist theory has had on cultural studies, from Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s defense of 2 Live Crew, to the #SayHerName and Protect Black Women rally and marches.

On Black Women, “In Defense of Transracialism,” and Imperial Harm

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Camisha Russell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Publication Ethics ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Academic Feminism ◽  
Shed Light

This essay is a response to the events surrounding Hypatia's publication of “In Defense of Transracialism.” It does not take up the question of “transracialism” itself, but rather attempts to shed light both on what some black women may have experienced following from the publication of the article and on how we might understand this experience as harm. It also suggests one way for feminist journals to reduce the likelihood of similar harms occurring in the future. I begin by describing a discussion that occurred in my classroom that bears some resemblance to the much larger debate that emerged around Hypatia. Next, I elaborate a concept of imperial harm. I then address how this concept comes to be relevant to the experience of black women within the discipline of philosophy in general, before briefly describing how academic feminism (including feminist philosophy) has served as a particular site of imperial harm for black women. Finally, touching on the idea of expressive harm, I conclude with an appeal for the adoption of more feminist publication ethics.

Do the Future Plans of Educated Black Women Include Black Mates

1995 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Porter ◽  
Arline L. Bronzaft
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Plans

“Glass half full: cautious optimism and the future of Black women political elites in America”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Nadia E. Brown ◽  
Sarah Allen Gershon
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Abstract In this essay, we place Black women's electoral challenges and opportunities in context. We situate this year of “Black Women Candidates” as an anomaly, but one that has been a long in the making. We also point to the appeal of Black women lawmakers among voters to mirror Alberder Gillespie's claims in this epigraph. We note that Black women have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party and are willing to use their clout for their own political means. Furthermore, given the unique ways that Black women represent their constituents, an influx of Black women into governing bodies may have a substantial, lasting impact on policy-making. We conclude with insights from our own research and that of other scholars on Black women to demonstrate future avenues of scholarly research.

scholarly journals Poetics for a Black Revolt

eLyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Haja Marie Kanu
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

This essay is written as a response to the compounded crises of police brutality and the Covid-19 pandemic, in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement reignited by the death of George Floyd in 2020. It aims to show how anti-blackness and capitalism are the common denominators contributing to mass death in both crises. The essay explores the possibilities for poetry as radical practice, particularly the work of Black women poets such as Audre Lorde, Ericka Huggins and Warsan Shire. What becomes evident is the centrality of the Black body in reimagining the future, despite its historical emergence from the slave body. I argue that we must return to and reaffirm the bodies that Judith Butler calls abject within theory and poetics, in order to better protect the lives that inhabit them.

scholarly journals Growing up with black hair in the GTA: three women share their stories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Bagirakandi
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Black Hair ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hair Styling

The literature demonstrates that Black hair affects the identity of Black women. However, there is little research on how Black hair affects the identity of Canadian Black girls. For the purpose of this study, Black hair will refer to coiled textured hair, often referred to as “kinky”. The goal of the present study was to understand the effects of Black hair on the identity of Black girls between the ages of 5 and 12. Three Black women between the ages of 20 and 35 were asked to recall their experiences growing up in Canada with Black hair. Following a Black feminist approach, data was collected through story telling in an open-ended interview and four themes were identified : caring for Black hair, hair altering, the future of Black hair, and influences on Black hair styling. The women in the study have a hopeful vision for the future of Black hair. Keywords: Black hair, identity, Canadian context, childhood

Vacancies, Unemployment, and Black and White Wage Earnings: 1956–1983

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Don Mar
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Primary Result ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Wage Earnings ◽  
New Jobs

Utilizing recent developments in the literature on vacancies and unemployment, the effects of changes in the vacancy to unemployment ratio on black and white wage earnings are examined. The primary result argues that black women's wage earnings are less sensitive to changes in the national vacancy to unemployment ratios than white earnings. Another way of interpreting this result is that black women are not experiencing wage gains when new jobs are created. This finding suggests that black women may not experience increases in earnings if the vacancy to unemployment ratio increases in the future.

scholarly journals Pimps Up, Hoes Down?: The Amazing Misadventures of Blackface Masculinity

AmeriQuests ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davarian Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Color Line ◽  
The Future

This essay argues that the current framing of black masculinity within expose-style discussions have continually mired a needed conversation about the future of black masculinity within a discourse of “blackface masculinity.” Here, a literal minstrel show is enacted where the most canned, marketable, and enticing expressions of black masculine deviance in popular culture stand in for a more pointed conversation about the pervasiveness of an American brand of misogyny and homophobia. In the end, this blackface show is an American production that purposefully racializes dangerous expressions of masculinity as inherently “black,” limits black women to a vision of gender defined by social/sexual subservience to all men, and renders invisible current anxieties around gender relations that could help explain the attractive lure of his “blackface masculinity” for men across the color line.

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