Jordan-Zachery / Alexander-Floyd Black Women in Politics

Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7095-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in New Political Science

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan-Zachery, Julia S.

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

Black Women’s Political Labor: An Introduction
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

Part I: Black Feminists Doing Intersectionality Work

1. 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

2. “I Ain’t Your Darn Help”: Black Women as the Help in Intersectionality Research in Political Science
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Part II: Black Feminist Policy Analysis

3. The Politics of Black Women’s Health in the UK: Intersections of “Race,” Class, and Gender in Policy, Practice, and Research
Jenny Douglas

4. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women Felons Reentering Society
Keesha M. Middlemass

5. Lost Tribes: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of How US HIV/AIDS Policy Fails to “Rescue” Black Orphans
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Part III: Diasporic Black Women and the Global Political Arena

6. El pan, el poder y la politica: The Politics of Bread Making in Honduras’s Garifuna Community
K. Melchor Quick Hall

7. Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle-Class Politics in Jamaica
Maziki Thame

8. “We Want to Set the World on Fire”: Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940–1944
Keisha N. Blain

Part IV: Discourses, Movements, and Representation

9. Morrisonian Democracy: The Literary Praxis of Black Feminist Political Engagement
Judylyn S. Ryan

10. Illegitimate Appetites: Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Campaign as Sexual Regulation
Grace E. Howard

11. “We Always Resist: Trust Black Women”: Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Activism in the Wake of Health Care Reform
Tonya M. Williams

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of Black Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service at Providence College. She is the author of Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy and Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is the author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics.