Black Women as Leaders: Challenging and Transforming Society

by Lori Latrice Martin

Overview

This book examines how black women have identified challenges in major social institutions across history and demonstrated adaptive leadership in mobilizing people to tackle those challenges facing black communities.

Most studies about black women and social justice issues focus on the responses of black women to racism within the context of the feminist movement and/or the responses of black women to sexism in black liberation movements. Such discussions often fail to explore the ways in which black women's commitment to negotiating their racial, gender, and class identities, while engaged in the practice of leadership, is discouraged and ignored.

Black Women as Leaders analyzes the commitment of contemporary black women to social justice issues from the perspective of adaptive leadership. It shows how black women are often forced into the public practice of leadership due to violent attacks from people with whom they are in engaged in interpersonal relationships. The book also breaks new ground by revealing how black women suffer from the devaluation and vilification of their engagement in the practice of leadership in private settings, such as their homes and selected religious and institutional settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440866241
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/14/2019
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lori Latrice Martin is professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She is author of several books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Black Women and the Activist Challenge 1

2 Black Women and Educational Reform 27

3 Black Women and Criminal Justice Reform 47

4 Black Women Athletes and Racial Stereotypes and Myths 67

5 The Women behind the Hashtag 89

6 Black Women: Mothers, Metro Council Members, and Mayors 107

7 Black Women and the Dawning of a New Decade 123

Notes 129

Bibliography 151

Index 177