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Gender and Jim Crow 5-8 (Epilogue (sense of hope/optimism amid violence…
Gender and Jim Crow 5-8
Chapter 5
No Middle Ground
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"turns to the removal of African American men from the public sphere, begun with disenfranchisement, exacerbated by the restructuring of the republican party and the growing reticence of the black church, and culminating in whites demonization of the black family" (p.xx)
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James E. Shepard--"We recognize the fact that there can be no middle ground between freedom and slavery. We cannot see that the best way to make a good man is to unman him." (p. 120)--how to best maintain civic personhood
Chapter 6
Diplomatic Women
"Progressive Era" people thought they were doing better for society, but african americans are disenfranchised, and continue to experience racism (juxtaposition)
black women=leaders in community--spokespeople and motivators, community organization
"after the disenfranchisement of black men, black women became diplomats to the white community" (p.xxi)
"white middle class women lobbied to obtain services from their husbands, brothers and sons; black women lobbied to obtain services for their husbands, brothers, and sons" p.149
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Black women embraced progressivism and reshaped--"black women given straw and they made bricks" p.175
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Chapter 8
Women and Ballots
Southern Suffrage: came late, lacked grass roots, racist---artificial separation between race and gender
"black women could not and did not end racism, although they found ways to increase their power within a system that aimed to render them powerless" p.224
"analysis of black women's campaign to register to vote in 1920, white women's racial strategies during the woman suffrage struggle, and the effect of the black woman voter on white supremacy" (p.xxi)
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Epilogue
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"without black women's efforts and white women's limited responses, the racial politics of the United States might have moved closer to the South African System" p.225