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Black feminist politics from Kennedy to Obama / Duchess Harris.
- Title
- Black feminist politics from Kennedy to Obama / Duchess Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Duchess
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harris, Duchess.
- Description
- xv, 215 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black womenʹs involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and the present, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Duchess Harris demonstrates that Black women have tried to gain centrality through their participation in Presidential Commissions, Black feminist organizations, theatrical productions, film adaptations of literature, beauty pageants, electoral politics, and Presidential appointments. She contends that "success" in this area means that the feminist-identified Black women in the Congressional Black Caucus who voted against Clarence Thomasʹs appointment would have spoken on behalf of Anita Hill; Senator Carol Moseley Braun would have won re-election; and Shirley Sherrod wouldnʹt have been forced to resign from her USDA position. Harris contends that if this is truly a post-racial America, there should be no apprehension to discuss issues concerning racism at a national level. -- Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary Black history
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary Black history
- Subject
- 1900-2099
- Feminism > United States > History
- African American women > Political activity > History
- African American feminists > Political activity > History
- Elections > United States > Sociological aspects
- United States > Politics and government > 20th century
- United States > Politics and government > 21st century
- United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published as Black feminist politics from Kennedy to Clinton, 2009
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A history of Black American feminism -- The 1990s in context: a history of Black women in American politics -- Black women's relationships with party politics -- Doubting the Democrats: current disenchantment and political futures -- The state of black women in politics under the first black president.
- ISBN
- 9780230112551
- 0230112552
- OCLC
- 727362156
- SCSB-11135899
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library