203 P -
Black Women and the State: A Global Perspective
Saturday, June 3, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
RSVLT 13 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Michele Mitchell, New York University
Session Abstract
This panel focuses on ways black women engage in feminist thinking and civil rights activism, challenge adversity, and make contributions that are enduring and potent. One study looks at the women of the National Council of Negro Women, the largest black women’s organization in the 1960s and 1970s, and how these activists worked within the framework of American liberalism to establish poverty projects for women of African descent around the world.The second study explores Sadie Alexander – the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics and a successful practicing lawyer – and how she offered an alternative, black feminist definition of economic citizenship that shifted discourses on the relationship between race, gender, labor, and the meaning of citizenship during the interwar years, particularly the New Deal era. The third study examines "Seven Months in the Kingston Lunatic Asylum, and What I saw There", a pamphlet published in July 1860 in Kingston, Jamaica that was written by Ann Pratt, a mixed-race Jamaican woman. The text transformed a years-long controversy over the treatment of patients in Kingston’s lunatic asylum and public hospital.
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