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Review Of Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power And Social Change In The Biafran Atlantic Age. By Ndubueze L. Mbah. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 307 P. $ 33.20., Nadir A. Nasidi

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

For a long period of time, women played significant roles in many pre-colonial African societies, serving in various capacities as religious, political, and economic leaders. The exact roles and status of these women, however, differ contrastively from one society to another based on factors such as religion, culture, and social organization. Though this unpopular fact about African history receives little or no attention from scholars, few studies offer some insights into the history and transformation of the powers of female leaders in Africa (Weir, 2000; Ogbomo, 2005; Weir, 2006; Achebe, 2011; Akyeampong & Fofack, 2014). Along this intersection, Mba's Emergent …

Ghosting Humanity: In Search Of An Ethics For The Disappeared, John Kaiser Ortiz

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper visualizes what an ethics of the disappeared might look like if the troubled ontology of ghosts and their (un)seen realities are posited as real as allied discussions of the victims of human trafficking and other instances of violence against women, including femicide and sexual slavery.

Review Of Walaa Alqaisiya. Decolonial Queering In Palestine. London: Routledge, 2023, Ankita Chatterjee

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Decolonial Queering in Palestine by WalaaAlqaisiya offers an in-depth study of the conquest of Palestine with respect to the variegated power structures of settler colonialism and underscores the political significance of a reformulated mode of decolonization. It argues for the need to interweave queer into the native Palestinian positionality termed as 'decolonial queering', so as to challenge the (hetero) sexualizing and gendered discourses embedded within both the Israeli/Zionist settler colonial regime and the Palestinian Nationalist visions of liberation. By the 'ethnographic' engagement with the works of Palestinian artists and activists from one of the prominent queer groups, alQaws, the book …

Perhaps Discomfort Is The Answer: Refusing Liberal Feminism And Imperial Cartographies Of Thinking/Feeling, Saida Hodzic

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs is an unsettling feminist ethnography that traces the movements of three objects: the endings of female genital cutting in Ghana, their relationship to anti-cutting campaigns and the forms of governance they instantiate, and the role anthropology and feminism have played in this governance since colonial rule. It makes the case that the three objects must be studied together: namely, that we need to understand the practice of female genital cutting alongside its endings; that cutting does not exist outside of anti-cutting campaigns; and that anti-cutting campaigns are entangled with both …

Review Of Saida Hodzic. The Twilight Of Cutting: African Activism And Life After Ngos. Oakland: Univeristy Of California Press, 2017., Tobe Levin Von Gleichen

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

With considerable fanfare, in Adieu !'Excision. Histoire et fin d'une tradition (Raymond Hounsa, 2009), Christa Muller rejoices in having saved Benin from FGM, the French text lauding eradication. The effort instigated by a Saarbrucken-based NGO, it has banned blades from the vicinity of vulvae. In 1996, on a state visit, Muller, then married to Saarland's governor Oscar Lafontaine, was asked by Benin's First Lady Rosine Vieyra Soglo¹ to assist her Inter-African Committee (IAC) chapter by creating an association. This she did, launching I(N)TACT, e.V. and securing 300,000 Euros for the movement, a sum with strings, however. Berlin insisted on …

What Man Would Put Up With Me... Eartha White Carries Out The Prophecy Of Her Name, Angela Taylor

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

New clipping about Eartha Mary Magdalene White. Undated.

Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Biographical information on Eartha White. (Appears to be in her handwriting.) Undated.

Break Thou The Bread Of Life, Mary A. Lathbury

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Poem dedication compliments of Eartha White in memory of her mother Mrs. Clara White. Undated.

Mother

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Poem "Mother" printed on a contribution form for the Old Folks Home. Undated.

Las Bexareñas And Their Wills: Women’S Material Culture And Cataloguing Practices In Spanish San Fernando De Béxar, Amy M. Porter

History Faculty Publications (Archived)

The women of San Fernando de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas) on the northern edge of New Spain faced the many challenges of frontier life. The belongings of these women were limited compared to that of women in other parts of New Spain, yet the Béxar women accumulated, largely through inheritance, religious paintings, statues, and crucifixes as well as clothing, jewelry and kitchen wares. Some women had luxuries and furniture from other parts of New Spain or the world. Through their wills, women catalogued their most prized possessions. Not all women left behind wills, but those who did catalogued their …

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

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Notes for a speech about Memorial Day program . Undated.

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

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Notes for a speech regarding the creation of a Colored Citizens Protective League . Undated.

Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

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Notes for a speech mentioning religion. Undated.

Speech Notes And National Council Of Knights Of Toussaint Program

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Notes about women and society written on a National Council Knights of Toussaint Program. from February 21-22, 1927.

We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Welcome to the fourth exhibit in the series of “We Exist”. In this section we have selected quotes that represent and explain how Maine’s Black residents’ create the processes behind their engagement in particular leisure activities. The quotes also highlight the particular types of leisure activities that Maine’s Black residents suggest that they are involved in. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project "'Home Is Where I Make It': African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine”. The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of …

Feminists As Cultural ‘Assassinators’ Of Pakistan, Afiya S. Zia

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Pakistan’s annual Aurat March (Women’s March) signifies a milestone in the culture of feminist protest, but a tense impasse follows a series of encounters between sexual and religious politics, and this has serious implica- tions for rights-based activism in the Islamic Republic.

The Fundamentalist Nexus Of Neoliberalism, Rentier Capitalism, Religious And Secular Patriarchies, And South Asian Feminist Resistances, Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In two case studies from Pakistan, which I then link to Afghanistan (under the Taliban before and after the Soviet/ US proxy war there) as well as the Farmer’s Movement in India—I wish to proffer an intersectional analysis of debates around the issue of women’s rights in the global south. Feminist artivism (art-as-activism), can help build solidarities to mount resistances against globally-inflected state repression in our age of neoliberal economic and religious fundamentalisms, which, working in tandem, seek to roll back the rights of women and minorities in and across South Asia, as elsewhere.

Volume 15 - Issue 1: La Créole - A Journal Of Creole History & Genealogy, Clara G. Stillman, Darryl G. Barthé Jr., Carol Mills-Nichol, Curtis M. Graves, Melissa Daggett, Ingrid R. Stanley, Givonna Joseph, Leah Jones, Fatima Shaik, Kathryn Coleman Labat

La Créole - A Journal of Creole History & Genealogy

The Louisiana Creole Research Association, Inc., known as LA Creole, was founded on August 21, 2004 as a New Orleans-based, non-profit family research and educational organization. Its purpose is to assist Creoles of Color in researching their ancestry, to educate the general public about Creole history and culture, and to celebrate the contributions and legacy of a unique, sometimes forgotten people. La Créole, the Association’s journal is published annually.

Poetic Commodities: Exploration Of The Familial Impacts And History Of Indigenous Food Insecurity In “Why I Hate Raisins”, Katarina Rothhorn

Conspectus Borealis

This essay looks at Natalie Diaz's poem "Why I Hate Raisins" and the historical and contemporary implications of Native American reliance on government commodity programs.

Miss Lloyd Appointed Canning Manager

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping regarding Pauline Lloyd being appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to run the canning operations of the City Federation of Colored Women’s Club of Jacksonville. Eartha White mentioned as President of City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Undated.

Note To Eartha White From Mrs. R. A. Wells

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Note to Eartha M.M. White, President of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs asking her to inform the ladies of the Federation to go to the parsonage.

Transcript: “To the Pres. Of the Federation - You will please inform the ladies of the Federation to come over to the parsonage for labatory purposes. Yours truly Mrs. R.A. Wells”

Petition To The Board Of County Commissioners By City Federation Of Women Clubs

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping about Eartha M.M. White, president of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs petitioning the Board of County Commissioners regarding lack ventilation for the prisoners at the county prison farm and for a chapel for religious services for the prisoners. Metropolis. Undated.

Florida Federation Ledger, Eartha Mary Magdalene White

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Eartha White's ledger from work with the Florida Federation of Colored Women's Club, blank pages not scanned. Includes separate receipts. Undated.

Award For Meritorious Service Presented To Eartha White, Bethune Cookman College

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Award for meritorious service presented by Bethune Cookman College to Eartha White. Undated.

Health Department, N.A.C.W.

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Health Information Leaflet prepared for clubs of The National Association of Colored Women, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, M.D. - National Chairman.

National Association Of Colored Women Report Blank

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Blank form. Handwriting on back: "James Jones, Amous Jackson, Earnest Baley, Edward [illegible], Elis Handcock, H. Green"

Stationery Letterhead: National Association Of Colored Women

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Unused National Association of Colored Women, Inc. stationary. Officers, Honorary Presidents, Department Chairmen, and Standing Committee Chairmen printed on the back.

Florida Women Honored At Forest Hills

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

New clipping regarding the cottage at Forest Hills School for Girls, Forest Hills, Florida, named for Eartha M. M. White & six other distinguished women leaders. People left to right: Eartha M.M. White, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannye Ayer Ponder, Minnie L. Rogers, Alice G. Mickens, Dr. E.C. Hampton. Undated.

An Exposition Entitled The Negroes Making In America

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Program for an exposition “The Negroes Making in America”, under the auspices of the Choir of Laura Street Presbyterian Church. October 12. Sponsored by Bethune-Cookman College. Featuring address by Mary McLeod Bethune. Performances by Bethune-Cookman Glee Club and Bethune-Cookman Quartettes.

Architect To Submit Girl's Cottage Plan

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping regarding Duval County Parental Home - a cottage type building to accommodate thirty girls and the administrative offices. Undated.