Sankofa Socialization as a Response to the Soul Trauma of Black Women Activists in Ministry

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-477
Author(s):  
Ericka Elion
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Activists

Make Washington Safe for Negro Womanhood The Politics of Police Brutality

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-109
Author(s):  
Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Street Harassment ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
The Press ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The City

This chapter chronicles patterns of racialized and gendered interracial police brutality in Washington, D.C. and the efforts of black women and men to end this violence. Between 1928 and 1938 white police officers in the city shot and killed forty black men in the city. While white officers did not shoot and kill black women and girls, but subjected at least twenty nine to a range of violent behaviors, including street harassment, racial epithets, physical assaults, and intrusions into their homes. In addition to these abusive encounters, white officers employed a double standard by refusing to conduct investigates when black women were abused, raped, or murdered; this was a form of negligence. Black women who were the victims of police violence resisted interracial policy brutality by fighting back, alerting the press, and pleading innocence in police court. Black women activists joined with men to stem the crisis of interracial police violence through protest parades, mock trials, mass meetings, and congressional lobbying.

Educational practices and knowledge constituted in the political training processes of black activists: a literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréia Teixeira dos Santos ◽  
Marizete Lucini
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Brazilian History ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

This text undertakes a bibliographic survey of academic discussions involving the trajectories of black women activists. Historically, black women have challenged institutional powers, facing racism and sexism, while oppressions crystallized in society. One of the strategies to face oppression is the movement of black women, in the form of organizations that fight within an intersectional perspective. We understand that Black Feminism plays a leading role in the action of educating, highlighting its pedagogical role in the dissemination of knowledge, in addition to its political role throughout Brazilian history. Black feminism highlights the specificity of the feminine that aggregates struggles and processes experienced by black women. We hope, with this text, to present reflections that problematize black women's movements, showing the complexity of concepts related to educational practices and knowledge constituted in political formation processes of black women activists, based on research registered in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations of CAPES.

Remaking Black Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Essays ◽  
The Third World

Complicating the common assumption that sexism relegated women to the margins of the movement, Remaking Black Power demonstrates how black women activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This book illustrates how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the “Militant Black Domestic,” the “Revolutionary Black Woman,” and the “Third World Woman,” for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era’s organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Using a vast array of black women’s artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, the book reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

The Pan-African Woman, 1972–1976

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Black American ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Black American Women ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 4 explores how black women activists extended these gendered debates beyond American borders. It contextualizes their interest in and identification with the African and Pan-African liberation struggles of the 1970s and explores their speeches and conference resolutions from the 1972 All-Africa Women’s Conference and the 1974 Sixth Pan-African Congress as examples of how they articulated their ideal of the “Pan-African Woman.” The chapter illustrates how black women activists theorized a political identity that advocated for African-centered politics and gender equality across ideological, geographical, and organizational lines. It also foregrounds how they repositioned black American women at the forefront of diasporic liberation struggles, challenging black men’s real and imagined positions as the leaders of global Black Power struggles.

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