What's sex got to do with It: Gender and the new black freedom movement scholarship

Feminist Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-183

  Greene, Christina ^a  

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EID: 33745663774     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20459077     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. For just one example of the persistence of this view of Rosa Parks, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," a popular African American sit-com, recently featured its lead character describing Rosa Parks as the "old woman" who was just too tired to relinquish her seat to a white passenger. High-brow culture is frequently no better: a reporter on National Public Radio made a similar comment about a year-and-a-half ago. However, Parks's death last year elicited more informed commentary from both NPR and the New York Times.
2. Christina Greene, Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina (Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
3. Rustin's associate and fellow Black activist, Pauli Murray, a closeted lesbian, resorted to even more drastic measures. See Johnnetta Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities (New York: One World/Ballentine Books, 2003), 175.
4. Deborah Gray White cites a report by the National Council of Negro Women concerning the sexual abuse and rapes of young Black women arrested in Selma in 1963. White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (New York: W.W, Norton, 1999), 194.
5. See also Danielle McGuire, "'It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the Black Freedom Struggle," Journal of American History 91 (December 2004): 906-31.
6. Darlene Clark Hine, "Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance," Signs 14 (Summer 1989): 912-20.
7. Anne Braden passed away on 6 Mar. 2006.
8. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998);
9. Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002).
10. Anne Braden to George [Weissman], 21 Feb. 1959, Committee to Combat Racial Injustice Papers, Box 3, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
11. In this 1965 Department of Labor Report, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Harvard sociologist and official in Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, argued that urban poverty was largely the result of Black family breakdown. According to Moynihan, slavery had so decimated Black families that inner-city impoverished Blacks found themselves caught in a "tangle of pathology" characterized by a "Black matriarchy" of female-headed households and mostly absent, emasculated Black men (although even Moynihan acknowledged that three-quarters of all African American families in the 1960s had two parents present). As a solution, he suggested that Black women's jobs be revamped into jobs for Black men and that Black men join the all-male military where they could learn to "strut" and regain their lost masculinity. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Black Family: The Case for National Action (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1965). For one of the earliest critiques of the Moynihan Report, see
12. Lee Rainwater and William L. Yancey, The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967).
13. Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
14. Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).