Watching #SelfMadeNetflix as a historian who specializes in Black women in work/business/industry, specifically uncovering their struggles 4 economic justice I thought abt the texts/contexts that would have helped clarify the life of MCJW. I am starting #SelfMadeSyllabus. (1)
Second up, Deborah Gray White& #39;s Too Heavy A Load, is a classic in Black women& #39;s history and tells the history of Black women& #39;s organizations, including the National Association of Colored Women, https://books.google.com/books/about/Too_Heavy_a_Load.html?id=v6-fS190xuIC">https://books.google.com/books/abo... (3)
Thirdly, in Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women& #39;s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920, she lays out the "politics of respectability," which undergirded much of Black Christian women& #39;s activism
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674769786">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p... (4)
Fourthly, Darlene Clark Hine, Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women, a seminal work uncovering Black women& #39;s experiences of sexual violence and the strategies they used to protect themselves https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174692?seq=1">https://www.jstor.org/stable/31... (5)
Additionally, Julia Kirk Blackwelder& #39;s Stylin Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation explores Black beauty education during the Jim Crow era https://www.amazon.com/Styling-Jim-Crow-American-Segregation/dp/1585442445">https://www.amazon.com/Styling-J... (8)
Not done yet, also Tiffany Gill& #39;s brilliant Beauty Shop Politics which explores Black women& #39;s beauty activism, nationally and internationally, including their organizational and professional efforts https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86hdc8fp9780252035050.html">https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/cat... (10)
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