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Esther V. Cooper's “The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism”: Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front
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Cooper's "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism" as discussed by the authors is the most thorough sociological and historical study written about domestic workers in the United States.Abstract:
Esther V. Cooper's brilliant 120-page 1940 M.A. thesis, “The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism,” still stands as the most thorough sociological and historical study written ...read more
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The hidden help: black domestic workers in the civil rights movement
TL;DR: Armstrong as discussed by the authors examines women's labor as domestic workers and their participation in the Civil Rights Movement using the qualitative research method of interviews and black feminist theoretical perspective, and concludes that despite their historical roles and socioeconomic disadvantages, their reach for human agency was beneficial to society.
"Put One More 'S' in the USA": Communist Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of over 300 pamphlets from the Communist Party USA's Black Nation Thesis is analyzed, showing that these pamphlets function as speculative spaces for social movements, signaling both the dreams that compel social movements and the working out of ideological issues and concerns.
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Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
TL;DR: In recent years, "racial capitalism" has ascended across the humanities and social sciences to understand the mutually constitutive nature of racialization and capitalist exploitation, inter alia, on a global scale, in specific localities, in discrete historical moments, in the entrenchment of the carceral state, and in the era of neoliberalization and permanent war.
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
TL;DR: One of the most important African American leaders of the 20th century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned 50 years and touched thousands of lives.