Black women in politics : demanding citizenship, challenging power, and seeking justice / edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordan-Zachery, Julia S., 1971- editor.

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude), editor.

Series:

SUNY series in new political science

SUNY series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.

Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.

Feminism.

Women, Black--Political activity.

Women, Black--Social conditions.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Contents:

Black women's political labor : an introduction / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

Section I. Black feminists doing intersectionality work. Why political scientists don't study black women, but historians and sociologists do : on intersectionality and the remapping of the study of black political women / Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

"I ain't your darn help" : black women as the help in intersectionality research in political science / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Section II. Black feminist policy analysis. The politics of black women's health in the UK : intersections of "race," class, and gender in policy, practice, and research / Jenny Douglas

Hiding in plain sight : black women felons reentering society / Keesha M. Middlemass

Lost tribes : an intersectionality-based policy analysis of how US HIV/AIDS policy fails to "rescue" black orphans / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Section III. Diasporic black women and the global political arena. El pan, el poder y la política : the politics of bread making in Honduras's Garifuna community / K. Melchor Quick Hall

Woman out of place : Portia Simpson-Miller and middle-class politics in Jamaica / Maziki Thame

"We want to set the world on fire" : black nationalist women and diasporic politics in the New negro world, 1940-1944 / Keisha N. Blain

Section IV. Discourses, movements, and representation. Morrisonian democracy : the literary praxis of black feminist political engagement / Judylyn S. Ryan

Illegitimate appetites : Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign as sexual regulation / Grace E. Howard

"We always resist : trust black women" : black women's reproductive justice activism in the wake of health care reform / Tonya M. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438470931

1438470932

OCLC:

1008772250