Down to Now: Memory, Narrative, and Women's Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia

Nasstrom, Kathryn L.

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“…Without question, some black civil rights leaders chose to perform whiteness “in order to establish their respectability and readiness for the rights of citizenship” (Nasstrom ; 120). My concern is not that leaders who made this difficult choice are commemorated.…”

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Racial Code Words, Re‐Memberings and Black Kids’ Civic Imaginations: A Critical Race Ethnography of a Post‐Civil Rights Leader

Woodson

2018

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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This article uses the construct of racial code word to advance theory about unspoken, racialized expectations that accompany seemingly neutral historical concepts. Critical race ethnographic methods were used to examine how eight black teenagers made sense of the term "civil rights leader" and the assumptions that supported their sense-making. Data from this eighteen-month study reveals tension between ideals of whiteness in popular stories about black activism and the possible and desired civic identities of participants. [Critical race theory, civic education, critical race ethnography, social studies, urban education]

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Racial Code Words, Re‐Memberings and Black Kids’ Civic Imaginations: A Critical Race Ethnography of a Post‐Civil Rights Leader

Woodson

2018

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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“…It is within this more elastic periodization that this article places Boas and considers her pre-1950s activism. For a more detailed discussion of the recalibration of civil rights dates, see Fairclough 1995Fairclough , 2001Meier 1991;Nasstrom 1999a;and Sullivan 1996. 4.…”

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“…(Note that some of the following sources are specifically interested in the activism of white women while others examine the activism of both white women and African-American women, and/or the activism of white women and men.) See Barnard 1985;Blumberg 1990;Braden [1958Braden [ ] 1999Chappell 1994;Cope 2002;Crawford, Rouse, andWoods [1990] 1993;Curry, Browning, Burlage, Patch, Del Pozzo, Thrasher, et al 2000;Evans 1979;Fosl 2002;Fowlkes 1992;Frankenberg 1993;Gates 1996;Hall [1979Hall [ ] 1993Hall [ , 1992Irons 1998;Loveland 1986;Lynn 1992Lynn , 1994Murray 2004;Nasstrom 1999bNasstrom , 2000Parsons 2000;Sacks 1988;Schultz 2001;Thompson 2001. 9. For more detailed discussions of the history of race and dance in the United States, readers should consult the following key texts: DeFrantz 2002DeFrantz , 2004Gottschild 1996Gottschild , 2003Emery [1972] 1988; Fischer-Hornung and Goeller 2001;Foulkes 2002;Kraut 2008;Long 1989;Manning 2004;and Perpener 2001. 10.…”

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Civil Rights Strategies in the United States: Franziska Boas's Activist Use of Dance, 1933–1965

Lindgren¹

2012

Dance Res. J.

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At the first National Dance Congress and Festival, which was held in New York in May 1936, Edna Ocko, the dance editor ofNew Theatre Magazine, told the assembled delegates, “One cannot minimize the importance of an artist's social point of view, for it is he who, bringing his ideas before vast audiences, can organize and direct social thought” (25). Noting that young, politically aware choreographers had already embraced the political potential of dance, Ocko listed several topical social themes recently explored in choreography, including the need for “Negro and white unity”—an assertion championed by other speakers and formally adopted in the final session of the gathering when the delegates passed the following resolution: “Whereas the Negro People in America have been subject to segregation and suppression which has limited their development in the field of creative dance, be it resolved that the Dance Congress encourage and sponsor the work of the Negro People in the creative fields” (Ocko 1936, 27 and “Resolutions” 1936, 94).

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“…Not only are women reduced to insignificance in this dominant view, but entire episodes are eclipsed from the story. For example, women's activism was central to the massive voting rights campaign in 1946 Atlanta (Nasstrom 2006); the Montgomery campaign (Burns 1997); the Tallahassee campaign (Rabby 1999); the sit-ins (Halberstam 1998); freedom rides (Arsenault 2006); the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Payne 1995), and much, much more.…”

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Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle

Isaac

2008

Social Forces

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In what way do movements move? What do we mean by the movement of movements? While still a rather unconventional stance, I advance the argument that social movements are, at root, culture production agents. Regardless of whatever else they may accomplish, movements produce new cultural forms in the course of struggle; they often change and augment cultural stock in the process, and sometimes live on for generations in collective memory. My answer to the query follows a movement-centered production and circulation of culture template organized around several major moments of culture moves: moving across space, moving emotions, moving social-cultural conditions and moving through memory. I illustrate culture moves in these four moments using sociological and historical studies of the long civil rights movement, suggesting a variety of research agendas along the way.The modern conception of social movement can be understood as both noun and verb. While movement in its nominative form -typically foregrounded by scholars (e.g., labor movement, feminist movement, global social justice movement) -implies movement in its transitive verbal moment, I want to make the "implied" explicit by addressing a question asked by one of my students: In what sense do social movements move? This is not the standard inquiry about social movements, and may in fact seem strange, perhaps even simplistic on the surface. As sociologists we are much more accustomed to questions such as: How do we

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Down to Now: Memory, Narrative, and Women's Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia

Cited by 18 publications

References 1 publication

Racial Code Words, Re‐Memberings and Black Kids’ Civic Imaginations: A Critical Race Ethnography of a Post‐Civil Rights Leader

Racial Code Words, Re‐Memberings and Black Kids’ Civic Imaginations: A Critical Race Ethnography of a Post‐Civil Rights Leader

Civil Rights Strategies in the United States: Franziska Boas's Activist Use of Dance, 1933–1965

Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle

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