Black Women and Politics in New York City

Gallagher, Julie A.

University of Illinois Press（2014/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252080562
• DDC分類 320.0820973

Full Description

An essential contribution to twentieth-century political history, Black Women and Politics in New York City documents African American women in New York City fighting for justice, civil rights, and equality in the turbulent world of formal politics from the suffrage and women's rights movements to the feminist era of the 1970s. Historian and human rights activist Julie A. Gallagher deftly examines how race, gender, and the structure of the state itself shape outcomes, and exposes the layers of power and discrimination at work in American society. She combines her analysis with a look at the career of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for president on a national party ticket. In so doing, she rewrites twentieth-century women's history and the dominant narrative arcs of feminist history that hitherto ignored African American women and their accomplishments.

Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Fighting for Rights in the 1910s and 1920s2. Strides Forward in Times of Crisis in the 1930s and 1940s3. Pushing Through the Doors of Resistance in the 1950s4. Feminism, Civil Rights, and Liberalism in the 1960s5. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail in the 1960s and 1970sConclusionAppendixNotesIndex