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Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics / by N. Alexander-Floyd.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude)
Series:
Comparative Feminist Studies, 2752-3217
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex.
Race.
Europe--Politics and government.
Europe.
United States--History.
United States.
History, Modern.
Political science.
Gender Studies.
Race and Ethnicity Studies.
European Politics.
US History.
Modern History.
Political Science.
Local Subjects:
Gender Studies.
Race and Ethnicity Studies.
European Politics.
US History.
Modern History.
Political Science.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (255 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2007.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole. The author not only highlights the critical role of race and gender, she goes further to show how they operate to define political discourse and to determine public policy.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Toward a Black Feminist Frame of Reference: Gender, Nationalism, and the Ironies of Black Politics; 2 "We Shall Have Our Manhood": Black Macho, the Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm, and the Million Man March; 3 The Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm and George W. Bush's Faith-Based and Fatherhood Initiatives; 4 "A Threat from Within": The Black Woman as Traitor in African American Thought and Politics
Conclusion: "When and Where I Enter": Gender and Black Feminist Praxis in the Study and Interpretation of Black PoliticsNotes; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
9786611362850
9781281362858
1281362859
9780230605589
0230605583
OCLC:
314794008

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