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Among Ourselves: Black Women's Transcendence of Class Boundaries around Matters of Racial and Sexual Oppression |
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'Among Ourselves' is about the informal organization of Black women around a common understanding of multiple oppressions. Throughout history, Black women have used this informal space to negotiate shared rituals of bonding to discuss our feelings in order to become uplifted and stregthen one another. Furthermore, Black women's shared standpoints center around our lack of privilege in White Male dominate society, our objectified status as "other" which are compounded as consequences of race and gender oppression. I argue in this paper that the social structural position of Black women in U.S. society makes our activism more beneficial within the context of a multicultural female experience which speaks to this groups' everyday lived experience. |
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| Wallace, Gail. "Among Ourselves: Black Women's Transcendence of Class Boundaries around Matters of Racial and Sexual Oppression" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107945_index.html> |
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| Wallace, G. , 2003-08-16 "Among Ourselves: Black Women's Transcendence of Class Boundaries around Matters of Racial and Sexual Oppression" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107945_index.html |
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Abstract: 'Among Ourselves' is about the informal organization of Black women around a common understanding of multiple oppressions. Throughout history, Black women have used this informal space to negotiate shared rituals of bonding to discuss our feelings in order to become uplifted and stregthen one another. Furthermore, Black women's shared standpoints center around our lack of privilege in White Male dominate society, our objectified status as "other" which are compounded as consequences of race and gender oppression. I argue in this paper that the social structural position of Black women in U.S. society makes our activism more beneficial within the context of a multicultural female experience which speaks to this groups' everyday lived experience. |
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| Among Ourselves: Black Women’s Transcendence of Class Boundaries around Matters of Racial and Sexual Oppression INTRODUCTION This course paper has been very challenging for me to write within the context of excluding and including an analysis of class within the framework of simultaneous and interlocking systems of oppression that Black women experience. Situating Black women as a group outside of the rubric of a class analysis is especially problematic because class divisions are salient alongside our common experiences that |
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