At the heart of it all? : discourses on the reproductive rights of African American women in the 20th century / Anne Overbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overbeck, Anne, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Family values and social change ; volume 4.

Family values and social change, 2366-9462 ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive rights.

History.

African American mothers.

African American families.

United States.

African American families--History--20th century.

African American mothers--History--20th century.

Reproductive rights--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 246 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Contents:

1 Concepts and Terminology p. 2

2 State of Research p. 6

3 Theoretical Framework p. 14

1 "After All, a Woman is Biologically a Child Factory" - Eugenics and the Debate on Family Planning for African Americans in the 1920s and Early 1930s p. 23

1.2 "The Negro Represents an Intrinsically Inferior Type of Humanity" - African Americans as an Inferior Race and Measures of Negative Eugenics p. 28

1.3 "We Negroes of Pride Discovered the Theory of Race Purity Long before Hitler" - African Americans as a Superior Race p. 34

1.4 "The Negro Issue" - Eugenics and the American Birth Control League p. 38

1.5 The "Talented Tenth" and "Better Baby Contests" - Debates on Positive Eugenics for the Black Community p. 43

1.6 "I for One Do Not Intend to Contribute Any to the Cause." - African American Women Voices p. 48

2 "Tomorrow's Families" - Modernization Discourses and the Changing View on African American Women p. 55

2.1 Cultural Anthropology and Modernizing Discourses p. 57

2.2 Matriarchs in the Making - Research on Motherhood from the 1930s to the early 1950s p. 62

2.3 "What Do I Know About Negro Programs Anyway" - The Birth Control Federation of America and the Foundation of the Negro Division p. 72

2.4 Black Women's Organization Turn Their Attention to Birth Control p. 83

3 "The Zero Population Growth Game" - Debating Black Motherhood in the Age of Population Control p. 91

3.1 "Hunger U.S.A." - The Overpopulation Debate and the Liberal Discourse on Birth Control for African American Women p. 94

3.2 "Space Minus Opportunity (...) Spells Violence" - "Population Pressure" and Birth Control for African American Women p. 101

3.3 "We Charge Genocide" - Birth Control and the Genocide Debate p. 105

3.4 "Keep Your Family the Right Size!" - Advise Columns on Black Reproduction in the Black Press p. 125

4 "A National Effort [to Establish] a Stable Negro Family Structure" - Poverty, Illegitimacy, and Black Motherhood in the 1960s p. 131

4.1 Making Motherhood Immoral - Changes in Aid for Families with Dependent Children and the Moynihan Report p. 133

4.2 Forced, Coerced, Sought After - Sterilization Practices in the 1950s and 1960s p. 153

5 In Sickness and in Health - Discussing Reproductive Rights in the Age of Crack, AIDS, and Women's Health p. 167

5.1 "The Enemy Within" - African American Motherhood and the "Crack Baby Crisis" p. 168

5.2 "Her Husband is an IV-Drug User" - Black Motherhood and HIV/AIDS p. 185

5.3 "Being Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" - Black Health Activism in the 1980s p. 191

1 Continuities and Changes in the Discourse on Reproductive Rights of African American Women in the 20th Century p. 214

2 Questions of Class and Gender - African American Agency in the Discourses on Family Planning Services for African American Women p. 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783110379778

3110379775

OCLC:

1086228842

Publisher Number:

9783110379778