...Keisha Lindsay; Deborah A. Thomas This essay explores how and with what effect Amy Bailey, a teacher, women’s rights activist, and public intellectual, cofounded the Housecraft Training Centre to educate working-class Jamaican women in cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other “domestic sciences...

... proposals. In 1938, prominent black Jamaican feminists Amy Bailey and Una Marson both testified before the Moyne Commission in London. Bailey attributed the high “illegitimacy” rates to economic conditions and ignorance, and she described male irresponsibility as “both an economic and a social question...

... or discussing the Spanish Civil War, as well as articles about taxation or Jamaica’s place in the empire; women like Amy Bailey and Una Marson feature frequently in these early issues, in debates on the educational system and the role of women in politics.15 While this focus on public...

... English, Jennifer Gonzalez, Patricia Hills, Amy Mooney, and Krista Thompson, in African American art history, and books by John Peffer, Steven Nelson, and Chika Okeke-Agulu and Okwui Enwezor, in the adjacent field of African art history, more volume-length studies have appeared in the 2000s than...