African American Women’s Clubs’ Activism in Chicago: the Remaining Strength of Extended Kinship Solidarity
Within the African-American community, sustaining family ties has particular importance and this has always been the case despite the successive migration waves that occurred in the wake of slavery. Similarly, within the clubs’ movement that African-American women created and which enjoyed a heyday...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:nuevomundo_67421 https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.67421 urn:doi:10.4000/nuevomundo.67421 en https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67421 2014-12-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/imx8 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ African American Women’s Clubs’ Activism in Chicago: the Remaining Strength of Extended Kinship Solidarity Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos Mondes Américains (UMR 8168) - EHESS info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1626-0252 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo Powell, Carrie women family African American club fosterage famille femmes club afro-descendants Within the African-American community, sustaining family ties has particular importance and this has always been the case despite the successive migration waves that occurred in the wake of slavery. Similarly, within the clubs’ movement that African-American women created and which enjoyed a heyday from the 1890s through the 1920s, the purpose was to maintain and expand social ties within the community, ties of kinship and also between social classes, in an urban context unknown to most of them. The present essay mainly focuses on mothers’ clubs in Chicago where Black women reformers sought—and still seek—to save the disadvantaged mothers from their social isolation. Patricia Hill Collins asserts that the activities of these “other mothers”, who are a part of the larger scope of the kinship networks in the black community, paved the way for their political activism. These maternal practices set a standard of solidarity and of collective survival. By focusing first on the history of the club movement, and secondly on my fieldwork at Sankofa Safe Child Initiative in the West Side of Chicago, the essay assesses the legacy of these women and the importance of family in the African American community that has prevailed despite many hardships. Au sein de la communauté africaine-américaine, la famille revêt une importance toute particulière, et ceci malgré les vagues de migration successives depuis l’esclavage. Pareillement, au sein du mouvement de clubs que les femmes Africaines-Américaines ont créé, mouvement qui connut son apogée de 1890 à 1920, le but était de maintenir et d’étendre les liens sociaux au sein de la communauté, liens de parenté mais aussi liens entre classes sociales, dans un contexte urbain qui leur était étranger. Cet article porte principalement sur les clubs de mères à Chicago où les réformatrices Noires avaient (et ont toujours) pour but de sauver les mères défavorisées de leur isolement social. Patricia Hill Collins montre que les activités de ces « autres mères », qui font partie de la parentèle étendue dans la communauté noire, ouvre la voie à leur activisme politique. Ces pratiques maternelles sont une norme de solidarité et de survie collective. En exposant tout d’abord l’histoire de ce mouvement de clubs, et en se centrant ensuite sur mon enquête de terrain à Sankofa Safe Child Initiative dans l’ouest de Chicago, cet article vise à évaluer l’héritage que ces femmes ont transmis et l’importance à toute épreuve de la famille au sein de la communauté africaine-américaine. |
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Within the African-American community, sustaining family ties has particular importance and this has always been the case despite the successive migration waves that occurred in the wake of slavery. Similarly, within the clubs’ movement that African-American women created and which enjoyed a heyday from the 1890s through the 1920s, the purpose was to maintain and expand social ties within the community, ties of kinship and also between social classes, in an urban context unknown to most of them. The present essay mainly focuses on mothers’ clubs in Chicago where Black women reformers sought—and still seek—to save the disadvantaged mothers from their social isolation. Patricia Hill Collins asserts that the activities of these “other mothers”, who are a part of the larger scope of the kinship networks in the black community, paved the way for their political activism. These maternal practices set a standard of solidarity and of collective survival. By focusing first on the history of the club movement, and secondly on my fieldwork at Sankofa Safe Child Initiative in the West Side of Chicago, the essay assesses the legacy of these women and the importance of family in the African American community that has prevailed despite many hardships. |
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African American Women’s Clubs’ Activism in Chicago: the Remaining Strength of Extended Kinship Solidarity |
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African American Women’s Clubs’ Activism in Chicago: the Remaining Strength of Extended Kinship Solidarity |
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African American Women’s Clubs’ Activism in Chicago: the Remaining Strength of Extended Kinship Solidarity |
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african american women’s clubs’ activism in chicago: the remaining strength of extended kinship solidarity |
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