Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Black Women’s Political Labor An Introduction
......Page 14
Intersectionality......Page 17
Where We Stand: Situating Black Women in Politics......Page 20
Moving From Silence to Voice......Page 24
Invisibility and Unmasking Power Structures......Page 27
Black Women’s Self-Actualization and Black Masculinist Politics......Page 30
Space Making and Self-Actualization......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 33
References......Page 35
Section I: Black Feminists Doing Intersectionality Work......Page 40
References......Page 43
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......Page 44
Overview and Research Design......Page 46
Findings: General Numeric and Statistical Profile......Page 48
Discussion......Page 53
Suggestions for Future Research......Page 61
Notes......Page 62
2. “I Ain’t Your Darn Help”: Black Women as the Help in Intersectionality Research in Political Science......Page 66
Black Women as Bridges: The Help and Intersectionality......Page 70
Theoretical Foundation: Silences, Muting, and Omissions......Page 73
Finding Black Women: Article Selection Criteria......Page 75
Trends in Scholarship......Page 76
Discussion......Page 78
References......Page 80
Section II: Black Feminist Policy Analysis......Page 84
References......Page 87
Introduction......Page 88
The African-Caribbean Population in the UK......Page 90
Racial-Gender Health Inequalities......Page 93
African Caribbean Women in the NHS......Page 97
Black Caribbean Women as Health Activists and Activists for Change......Page 98
Developing Intersectional Research on the Health and Well-Being of African Caribbean Women......Page 99
References......Page 102
Introduction......Page 108
Racialized Gender Disparities in the Criminal Justice System......Page 110
The Intersectional Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Criminal Status......Page 112
The Discursive Narratives of Black Women Felons Reentering Society......Page 115
Discussion......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 127
Notes......Page 129
References......Page 130
5. Lost Tribes: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of How US HIV/AIDS Policy Fails to “Rescue” Black Orphans......Page 136
The Challenge: Making Visible AIDS Orphans in the United States......Page 138
Applying Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis......Page 139
Intersectionality and Intersectional Stigma: Race, AIDS Orphans, and Visibility......Page 141
AIDS: Race, Gender, Epidemiology, and Public Opinion......Page 143
Policy Gaps......Page 145
Discussion......Page 146
References......Page 148
Section III: Diasporic Black Women and the Global Political Arena......Page 152
Reference......Page 154
Introduction......Page 156
The Naming/Labeling of Blackness......Page 157
Indigenous Identity and Matrifocality in the Context of Land Politics......Page 159
The Race, Gender, and Class of Honduras’s Land Policies......Page 160
Galpones Casaberos as Political Bodies of Resistance and Wealth Redistribution......Page 164
Socialization in the Production of Ereba......Page 168
Garifuna Women and the Future of Politics......Page 172
Conclusion: Black Political Women......Page 176
References......Page 177
7. Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle-Class Politics in Jamaica......Page 182
Middle-Class Politics and Its Gendered Norms......Page 185
Coming to Power......Page 189
Fixing Gender Matters......Page 192
Portia and the Poor......Page 195
Defeat......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 199
Notes......Page 200
References......Page 201
Introduction......Page 204
Black Nationalism and the UNIA during the 1940s......Page 208
Black Nationalist Women, Gender, and Diasporic Politics......Page 211
Conclusion......Page 221
Notes......Page 222
References......Page 223
Section IV: Discourses, Movements, and Representation......Page 230
Reference......Page 232
9. Morrisonian Democracy: The Literary Praxis of Black Feminist Political Engagement......Page 234
The Perils of US Democracy......Page 236
Empathy and the Moral Imagination......Page 240
Historical Thinking and Narrative Knowledge......Page 244
Intersectional Identities and Founding Narratives......Page 246
Conclusion......Page 251
Notes......Page 252
References......Page 253
10. Illegitimate Appetites: Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Campaign as Sexual Regulation......Page 256
First Ladies and the Nation......Page 257
Bringing Intersectionality to the Mother-In-Chief......Page 259
Domesticity, Responsibility, and Deracialization......Page 260
Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm Meets the Anti-Obesity Campaign......Page 264
Deflecting the Image of the Bad Black Mom......Page 265
Narrative of Decline......Page 266
Nation and the Cult of True Womanhood......Page 268
Implications and Conclusion......Page 271
References......Page 273
Introduction......Page 276
The Political Activism of Black Women in the Domain of Reproductive Politics......Page 278
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Ongoing Politicization of Women’s Health......Page 282
Data and Methods......Page 285
Findings......Page 287
Conclusion and Implications for Future Research......Page 294
References......Page 296
Contributors......Page 300
Index......Page 304