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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 172–184.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Molly Mitchell Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 THE PAST IN PRINT
When Women Get Together:
Black Women, Working Women,
and History
Molly Mitchell
Maria Odila...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Amira Rose Davis This article examines the experiences and representations of three black women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. The article demonstrates the way the Negro League owners, the black press, and black male sportswriters used varying representations of athletic...
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in React or Be Killed: The History of Policing and the Struggle against Anti-Black Violence in Salvador, Brazil
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. “Projeto Ururu”: Black women forming a protective barrier around men at a protest against police brutality, “Fourth International March against the Genocide of Black People,” organized by Reaja ou Será Morta / Reaja ou Será Morto, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, August 2016. Photograph by Lena
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 77–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Antonia Carcelén-Estrada Abstract This article examines women’s erasure from the Spanish colonial imagination in South America. While Black women are completely absent in the official colonial narratives about the various frontier expeditions to Esmeraldas featured in documents housed...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 81–106.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Erik S. McDuffie This article critically examines the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived black women's radical protest organization, and its human rights agenda during the early Cold War. The first and only group in the Communist Left led by African American women, the Sojourners...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 131–151.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Dawn Fulton Abstract This article examines literary evocations of Afropolitanism in French, with particular attention to millennial works by Black women writers. Narratives and portraits by Lauren Ekué, Léonora Miano, and Rokhaya Diallo reject the Afro-pessimism of twentieth-century visions...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 133–151.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Black women as risks to public health and white women’s virtue in the US-Mexico border town. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 white slavery sexual policing sex work California military In this essay, I trouble...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 37–51.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Corinne T. Field Abstract This essay outlines Sojourner Truth’s and Harriet Tubman’s articulations of an intersectional black feminist agenda for old-age justice. The two most famous formerly enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States, Truth and Tubman in their speeches, activism...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 11–29.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Jen Manion This essay examines the roots and legacy of violence against women in prison at the hands of guards and matrons during the first fifty years of the penitentiary in New York State. While immigrant and black women were disproportionately victims of institutional violence, US-born white men...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 32–58.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Black republic in Africa created what US Army officials called “an exceptional situation.” This essay explores what army leaders meant by “exceptional” and the resultant creation of “exceptional measures” to control sexual liaisons between American soldiers and women in Liberia. Sexual relations between...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 36–58.
Published: 01 January 2009
... brown femininity as central to a new iconography of modern Jamaica. “Miss Ebony,” the category for dark-complected women, won particular public attention, for it allegorized the desirable transformation of the mass of black Jamaica into a refined modern citizenry. The “Ten Types” beauty contest provides...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 11–35.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... Furthermore, at a transitional moment when Cuban leadership advocated institutionalization of the revolution, the Federation of Cuban Women provided highly visible opportunities for Davis to speak and be seen not afforded to men in the black liberation movement. Davis’s time in Cuba proved transformative...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 49–68.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Black women from the city of Colón, the ASF focused on literacy, housing reform, and women’s rights. Santizo, like Sotillo, remained an active member of the PNF, although with the ASF she addressed some of the specific sociopolitical and economic challenges facing Colón. The ASF also built on work...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 11–30.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of the scarcity in the occupied country. Counter to this conventional account, I show how sexual transactions between Korean women and American GIs served as a crucial medium in the circulation process. I conceptualize army supplies as a quasi currency whose exchange value was realized on the black market through...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (35): 49–56.
Published: 01 May 1986
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in a Southern Town, 1784-1860. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
320 pp. $24.95.
Jacquelyn Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work,
and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books,
1985. 448 pp. $25.95.
The two books under consideration here can offer some...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (70): 48–77.
Published: 01 January 1998
...; or Happy Homes and Good Society, 1868
Black Women’s Anger as a Historical Problem
On 12 October 1886, Ida B. Wells noted in her diary: ”I could not
help getting furiously angry but have controlled my anger.”l She
raged at sexual slander directed at her in her hometown of
Memphis, Tennessee...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (70): 49–77.
Published: 01 January 1998
...; or Happy Homes and Good Society, 1868
Black Women’s Anger as a Historical Problem
On 12 October 1886, Ida B. Wells noted in her diary: ”I could not
help getting furiously angry but have controlled my anger.”l She
raged at sexual slander directed at her in her hometown of
Memphis, Tennessee...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 260–266.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Anthony Michael Petro Julius H. Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900 . Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. Marla F. Frederick, Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith . Berkeley: University...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 96–105.
Published: 01 October 2016
... transformation in a system of legal and state governance
that thrives on the demise of black life.
In response to Martin’s death and the outrage that followed the acquittal,
the nascent BLM movement, spearheaded by three black queer women, Patrisse
Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, proposed...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 220–222.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of business enterprises.
Erik S. McDuffie is a jointly appointed assistant professor in the African American Studies
and Research Program and in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are twentieth-century black women’s
history...
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