Title Remaking black power : how black women transformed an era / Ashley D. Farmer

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 266 pages) Series Justice, power, and politics Justice, power, and politics. Contents The militant Negro domestic, 1945-1965 -- The black revolutionary woman, 1966-1975 -- The African woman, 1965-1975 -- The pan-African woman, 1972-1976 -- The third world black woman, 1970-1979 Summary In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created - the "MIlitant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance - spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life. -- from dust jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 11, 2017) Subject Women, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century African American women -- United States -- History -- 20th century Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. African American women Black power Women, Black United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017015698 ISBN 9781469634388 1469634384 1469634392 9781469634395

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