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Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Guy-Sheftall Beverly Cole Johnnetta Betsch
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781438433769
Publisert
2010-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
357

Redaktør
Guy-Sheftall Beverly
Cole Johnnetta Betsch

Om bidragsyterne

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. The authors of several books, together they have written Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities and coedited (with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Guy-Sheftall Beverly Cole Johnnetta Betsch
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk
Guy-Sheftall Beverly Cole Johnnetta Betsch
Heftet / 2010 / Engelsk
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Who should be first? With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as frontrunners, the 2008 Democratic primary campaign was a watershed moment in United States history. Offering the choice of an African American man or a white woman as the next Democratic candidate for U.S. President, the primary marked an unprecedented moment—but one that painfully echoed previous struggles for progressive change that pitted race and gender against each other. Who Should Be First? collects key feminist voices that challenge the instances of racism and sexism during the presidential campaign season, offer personal reflections on this historic moment, and trace the historic legacy of opposing issues of race and gender that informed debates and media representations of the 2008 Democratic primary. In this collection of writings by leading feminists including Patricia J. Williams, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Carol Moseley Braun, Maureen Dowd, Katha Pollitt, Pearl Cleage, Robin Morgan, Erica Jong, Mark Anthony Neal, and M. Jacqui Alexander about and during this unprecedented—and to many, unexpected—moment, editors Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Cole deftly balance charged conversations in the first collection on this key moment in contemporary U.S. history.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch Cole I. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions 1. Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama Frances Anderson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Marlene Fried, Linda Gordon, Judith LeBlanc, Nancy Kricorian, and Eliza Migdal 2. Feminists for Clinton Christine Stansell 3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz 4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election Patricia J. Williams 5. Duel of Historical Guilts Maureen Dowd 6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or Man Trumping Woman Patricia J. Williams 7. Sex Versus Race, Again Tracy A. Thomas 8. Obama and the Sisters Melissa Harris-Lacewell II. Personal Reflections: Having Our Say 9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker 10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53 Carol Moseley Braun 11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? Mark Anthony Neal 12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship Pearl Cleage 13. The Sisterhood Split Jessica Valenti 14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy Erica Jong 15. Hillary Is White Zillah Eisenstein 16. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85 Tim Wise 17. Black and for Hillary Tara Roberts 18. Why I Support Obama Andrea Guerrero 19. Daughters of the South, Rise Up: On Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election Cassie Premo Steele 20. Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy Courtney E. Martin 21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Katha Pollitt 22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama Ariel Garfinkel 23. Yo Mamma Linda Hirshman 24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism Aishah Shahidah Simmons III. Essays: Making Our Case 119 25. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia Jane Caputi 26. Goodbye to All That #2 Robin Morgan 27. Race to the Bottom Betsy Reed 28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign Dianne M. Pinderhughes 29. Does Race Trump Gender?: Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential Campaign Cynthia Neal Spence 30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008 A. Lynn Bolles 31. Michelle Obama On My Mind Arica L. Coleman IV. Post-Election: What We Learned 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama Andrea Smith 33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices Gloria Steinem 34. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria Wekker Appendix List of Contributors Index
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Who should be first? With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as frontrunners, the 2008 Democratic primary campaign was a watershed moment in United States history. Offering the choice of an African American man or a white woman as the next Democratic candidate for U.S. President, the primary marked an unprecedented moment—but one that painfully echoed previous struggles for progressive change that pitted race and gender against each other. Who Should Be First? collects key feminist voices that challenge the instances of racism and sexism during the presidential campaign season, offer personal reflections on this historic moment, and trace the historic legacy of opposing issues of race and gender that informed debates and media representations of the 2008 Democratic primary. In this collection of writings by leading feminists including Patricia J. Williams, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Carol Moseley Braun, Maureen Dowd, Katha Pollitt, Pearl Cleage, Robin Morgan, Erica Jong, Mark Anthony Neal, and M. Jacqui Alexander about and during this unprecedented—and to many, unexpected—moment, editors Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Cole deftly balance charged conversations in the first collection on this key moment in contemporary U.S. history.
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Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Acknowledgments Introduction Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch Cole I. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions 1. Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama Frances Anderson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Marlene Fried, Linda Gordon, Judith LeBlanc, Nancy Kricorian, and Eliza Migdal 2. Feminists for Clinton Christine Stansell 3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz 4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election Patricia J. Williams 5. Duel of Historical Guilts Maureen Dowd 6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or Man Trumping Woman Patricia J. Williams 7. Sex Versus Race, Again Tracy A. Thomas 8. Obama and the Sisters Melissa Harris-Lacewell II. Personal Reflections: Having Our Say 9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker 10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53 Carol Moseley Braun 11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? Mark Anthony Neal 12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship Pearl Cleage 13. The Sisterhood Split Jessica Valenti 14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy Erica Jong 15. Hillary Is White Zillah Eisenstein 16. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85 Tim Wise 17. Black and for Hillary Tara Roberts 18. Why I Support Obama Andrea Guerrero 19. Daughters of the South, Rise Up: On Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election Cassie Premo Steele 20. Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy Courtney E. Martin 21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Katha Pollitt 22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama Ariel Garfinkel 23. Yo Mamma Linda Hirshman 24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism Aishah Shahidah Simmons III. Essays: Making Our Case 119 25. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia Jane Caputi 26. Goodbye to All That #2 Robin Morgan 27. Race to the Bottom Betsy Reed 28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign Dianne M. Pinderhughes 29. Does Race Trump Gender?: Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential Campaign Cynthia Neal Spence 30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008 A. Lynn Bolles 31. Michelle Obama On My Mind Arica L. Coleman IV. Post-Election: What We Learned 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama Andrea Smith 33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices Gloria Steinem 34. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria Wekker Appendix List of Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781438433769
Publisert
2010-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
357

Redaktør
Guy-Sheftall Beverly
Cole Johnnetta Betsch

Om bidragsyterne

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. The authors of several books, together they have written Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities and coedited (with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

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