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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965
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Artikel-Nr:
9781682261668
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.04.2021
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Cherisse Jones-Branch
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
234x157x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Cherisse Jones-Branch is the James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University, where she is dean of the graduate school. She is the author of Crossing the Line: Women and Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II and coeditor of Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times.
"Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps is the first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural Arkansas. The text explores Arkansas's rural history to foreground Black women's navigation of racial and gender politics as a means to uplift African Americans, develop opportunities for social mobility, and subvert the formidable structures of white supremacy during the Jim Crow years"