African American women's global journeys and the construction of cross-ethnic racial identity

Materson, Lisa G.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2009.01.007

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“…13 During the San Francisco Conference, Bethune's version of feminism articulated a particular position of African American women as political, non-white, anticolonial and non-European in descent. 14 As the self-declared representative of all African American women, she explained that black women stood firmly in alliance with every other woman of colour around the world. This position, Bethune reasoned, allowed black women to espouse a majority position in a society that had otherwise discounted their ideas as insignificant or only relevant to a minority of the population.…”

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Mary McLeod Bethune's Feminism: Black Women as Citizens of the World

Warren¹

2021

Gender & History

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This article focuses on the particular moment of the 1945 United Nations charter meeting as a catalyst for a shift in Mary McLeod Bethune's feminist thought. The meeting, where Bethune served as the only African American female delegate, signalled a change in Bethune's thinking about equality for black women, so she used the founding of the United Nations as a platform to promote black women's alliances with other women of colour. Her idea was to reframe black women as citizens of the world, thus putting them in a numerical and ideological majority rather than keeping them in a minority position. Bethune has often been viewed as a reformer of race and gender issues in the early twentieth century, but a focus on her activism has hidden the intellectual contributions that she made to a form of black feminism that emerged out of her work with other clubwomen and through the United Nations in the 1920s through the 1950s. Specifically, this article argues that Bethune's intellectual work created a framework for African American women's feminism that emphasised anti-colonialism and their global alliance with other women of colour throughout the world.

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Mary McLeod Bethune's Feminism: Black Women as Citizens of the World

Warren¹

2021

Gender & History

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“…The International Council of Women of the Darker Races (ICWDR) was founded in 1922 by members of the U.S. National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, an organization formed by Margaret Murray Washington, Terrell, and several others almost three decades earlier. Lisa Materson () argues that members of the ICWDR “attempted to cultivate a cross‐ethnic, politically conscious composite racial identity for women…grounded in shared experiences of oppression and resistance” (p. 35) at the turn of the 20th century. Despite the fact that the council never grew as large in numbers as its leaders hoped, it did, in Materson's words, allow African American women to begin “to work out for themselves the notion that black oppression in the US—and even more specifically black women's oppression—was part of a larger experience of racism and colonialism across the globe” (p. 36).…”

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Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

Threlkeld

2017

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Since its publication in 1997, Leila Rupp's Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement has been hailed as a ground‐breaking work of scholarship on women's internationalism. This essay considers its impact for U.S. historians in particular, examining how it has led to new studies of U.S. women internationalists and of U.S. women's engagement with women around the world. It has also furthered efforts to globalize the history of the United States, to reperiodize the field of U.S. women's history, and to diversify the field of U.S. foreign relations.

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“…These historical and macro-level expressions are linked to micro-level impacts on the psychological and physical African-descended people in general (e.g., Carter, 2017; D.R. Williams et al, 2003;Pascoe & Smart Richman, 2009;Pieterse et al, 2012), and when combined with similarly varied forms of violence that target women, these expressions have impact on the lives of Black women throughout the Diaspora (e.g., Bryant-Davis et al, 2011;Davis, 1990;Materson, 2009).…”

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On Pan-Africanism, Feminism, and Psychotherapy: The Perspectives of Three Black Scholar-Practitioners from the U.S., Uganda, and St. Kitts/U.S

2020

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Three African-descended psychologists discuss the case of a psychotherapy dyad in which the first author, a U.S. national, and a Caribbean student who had immigrated to the U.S. served respectively as therapist and client. We discuss the relevance of Helms' racial identity development theory to the cultivation of psychological health among African-descended women, proposing that this form of health is intimately tied to our association with other Africandescended people. With particular focus on the client's disclosures about certain groups of Black people in stereotypical ways, what we term "othering by the other," we offer a conceptualization that knits together issues of personal vulnerability, the reproduction of structural violence, and racial identity development. We conclude by presenting our views on the process and outcome of the therapeutic case and the significance of the theory to addressing the violence that continues to disrupt the lives of Black men and women around the world.

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African American women's global journeys and the construction of cross-ethnic racial identity

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Mary McLeod Bethune's Feminism: Black Women as Citizens of the World

Mary McLeod Bethune's Feminism: Black Women as Citizens of the World

Twenty years of Worlds of Women: Leila Rupp's impact on the history of U.S. women's internationalism

On Pan-Africanism, Feminism, and Psychotherapy: The Perspectives of Three Black Scholar-Practitioners from the U.S., Uganda, and St. Kitts/U.S

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