Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- African diaspora (1)
- Black women (1)
- Catholic Church (1)
- Catholic Church History (1)
- Catholic Student Movements (1)
-
- Catholic Students (1)
- Global Sixties (1)
- History of social science (1)
- IYCS (1)
- Intellectual and Political History from Below (1)
- Internal colonization (1)
- JEC (1)
- JUC (1)
- Jewish diaspora (1)
- Jewish subjectivity (1)
- Jewish women (1)
- Latin American History (1)
- Latin American Sixties (1)
- Latin American Student Movements (1)
- Lay Activism (1)
- MIEC (1)
- Pax Romana IMCS (1)
- Review of Life Method (1)
- Specialized Catholic Action (1)
- Student Activism (1)
- Transnational History (1)
- Whiteness (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Intellectual History
Vanguards Of Liberation: Progressive Catholicism, The Student Movement, And Political Culture In Latin America, 1960-1973, Sandra M. Londono-Ardila
Vanguards Of Liberation: Progressive Catholicism, The Student Movement, And Political Culture In Latin America, 1960-1973, Sandra M. Londono-Ardila
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Over the 1960s, a particular form of living the Christian faith bolstered student mobilization in Latin America. The Catholic episcopate supported the expansion of Catholic student organizations to strengthen the youth’s evangelization and form a Catholic intelligentsia that might inform social change and counter the elites’ de-Christianization. Significantly, dominant conservative views saw in these organizations the opportunity to halt Marxism in universities and society. Student organizations did not follow the latter path uncritically. They had their own agendas. Students built on multiple social theory developments, progressive theology—that reached momentum at Vatican II, and a shared apostolic method—the Review of Life. …
Jewish Women’S Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations Of Black Women In The African Diaspora, 1930-1980, Abby S. Gondek
Jewish Women’S Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations Of Black Women In The African Diaspora, 1930-1980, Abby S. Gondek
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation investigates how Jewish women social scientists relationally established their gendered-racialized subjectivities and theories about race-gender-sexuality-class through their portrayals of black women’s sexuality and family structures in the African Diaspora: the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, and the U.K. The central women in this study: Ellen Hellmann, Ruth Landes, Hilda Kuper, and Ruth Glass, were part of the same “political generation,” born in 1908-1912, coming of age when Jews of European descent experienced an ambivalent and conditional assimilation into whiteness, a form of internal colonization. I demonstrate how each woman’s familial origin point in Europe, parental class and political …