Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class", Greene finds that, in fact, low-income Afric
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| Title | : | Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807856002 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2005-04-25 |
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In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class", Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. Greene's analysis challenges
Editorial : "I know of no other work that so consistently details the importance of women's organizational networks to civil rights activism." Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia, author of "For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"
"A valuable treatment of women's participation in the black freedom movement. Greene sheds new light on how African American communities effectively challenged segregation and racial injustice." -- "American Historical Review"
Accepting bourgeois ideas and values is extremely easy; but perceiving without "them" may be a very arduous "affair" for one who, via his family, was "brought up" to merely be "them". As with many contests, the act of participating is the real fun and is the heart of this book.
Probably not a great read if you are not somewhat intrigued with ham radio but if you are, it will be a page turner!. His tone is flat and didactic and he piles on detail like he's transcribing from his day planner (and this is with a co-writer). Laverne was in and out of mental institutions, and Dominic's father was absent most of the time. Highly recommended. That's what this memoir did to me.
Still, I read the whole book. I'm thrilled to see the 'emerging voices' series on Amazon. What personal difference does it make to an individual whether Krishnamurti was a philanderer or a monk? Why should one be bothered with his presumed shortcomings, when he always carefully distanced 'the speake
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