Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago Contributor(s): Knupfer, Anne M. (Editor), Silk, Leonard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814746713 ISBN-13: 9780814746714 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1997 Annotation: ""Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood" explores the complexities of the ideologies and actions behind the slogan 'lifting as we climb.' Knupfer's study describes how middle-class African American women in Chicago used their clubs to respond to both the social welfare needs of a quickly expanding segregated community and their own intellectual and social growth".--Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Memphis. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Psychology | Interpersonal Relations - Reference |
Dewey: 977.311 |
LCCN: 96025259 |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.31" W x 9.24" (1.00 lbs) 222 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
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Publisher Description: During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly. |
Contributor Bio(s): Silk, Leonard: - " Leonard Silk was economics columnist of The New York Times and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Business Week. Mark Silk is a staff writer for the Atlantic Journal - Constitution and coauthor, with his father, of The American Establishment. "Knupfer, Anne M.: -Anne Meis Knupfer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Purdue University. |