A band of noble women : racial politics in the women's peace movement / Melinda Plastas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plastas, Melinda, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom--History.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Women and peace--United States--History--20th century.

Women and peace.

Peace movements--United States--History--20th century.

Peace movements.

African American women pacifists--History--20th century.

African American women pacifists.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

African American pacifists.

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 322 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Summary:

A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women's peace movement and the black women's club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. Believing that achievement of improved race relations was a central step in establishing world peace, African American and white women initiated new political alliances that challenged the practices of Jim Crow segregation and promoted the leadership of women in transnational politics. Under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), they united the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance, suffrage-era organizing tactics, and contemporary debates on race in their efforts to expand women's influence on the politics of war and peace. Plastas shows how WILPF espoused middle-class values and employed gendered forms of organization building, educating thousands of people on issues ranging from U.S. policies in Haiti and Liberia to the need for global disarmament. Highlighting WILPF chapters in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore, the author examines the successes of this interracial movement as well as its failures. A Band of Noble Women enables us to examine more fully the history of race in U.S. women's movements and illuminates the role of the women's peace movement in setting the foundation for the civil rights movement.

Contents:

Introduction : Race and the politics of peace and freedom

African American women and the search for peace and freedom

Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF

Philadelphia : forging a national model of interracial peace work

Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore : extending the network of interracial peace work

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

ISBN:

9780815651444

Publisher Number:

40019859019

40019844993

2027/heb34600 hdl

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