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Mainstreaming Black Power
Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Power’s reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.
A Companion to American Women's History
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
Investigating Gender
Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarship highlights how gender intersects with other systems of privilege and oppression. In this book five themes are carried forward throughout the text: the social construction of gender differences; gendered inequalities; intersections of gender with other systems of privilege and oppression; a relational global perspective; and the necessity of working toward social justice.
Like Our Very Own
"A fascinating chapter in American social and cultural history, Like Our Very Own offers compelling evidence of the role that adoption has played in our evolving efforts to define the meaning and nature of both motherhood and family."--BOOK JACKET.
The Ethics of Giving and Receiving
These essays by prominent ethicists, social philosophers, theologians, and leaders of nonprofit institutions grapple with the many thorny issues surrounding philanthropy and voluntarism. An outgrowth of two conferences sponsored by the Maguire Center at SMU in 1996-97, the essays examine the common and conflicting interests of donors, boards, staffs, and beneficiaries; the interface of voluntary communities with larger entities such as government; and the precarious balancing act between charity, solidarity, and responsibility.
Women and Power in American History: From 1880
This anthology brings together carefully selected, cutting-edge articles in U.S. Women's History--organized around issues related to gender and power in American society. The thirty-eight individual essays provide students with unifying themes that promote their understanding of women's history and changing gender relations. Both co-authors are highly visible in the field of women's history.
Making Change at the Grocery Store
Between 1920 and 1950, American food retailing was transformed. Small neighborhood stores gradually gave way to very large supermarkets. Grocers expected women shoppers to enjoy and adhere to store policies, rather than demand personal attention and assert themselves in pursuit of their family's food, as had been the case in the smaller stores of previous decades. At the same time, government officials also came to rely heavily on these new stores, as policymakers, pursued new, consumption-oriented laws and regulations. This dissertation asks why supermarkets achieved such popularity, arguing that their strategies were shaped by new laws and new gender relations, and not only by the need to please American shoppers through low prices. To make this argument, it studies the convergence in retail strategies of three kinds of retail firms—chain stores, independently owned smaller stores, and consumer cooperative societies. Using Chicago as a case study, the dissertation documents how the emergence of supermarkets marked a transformation in the ways that Americans bought and sold food, the ways that policymakers governed, and the places in which women claimed and exercised power.
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