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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps - Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 (Paperback)
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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps - Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 (Paperback)
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The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural
Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds
activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language
and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In
reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many
important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely
within Arkansas’s agrarian history. The Black women activists
highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the
Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes
Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute
understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in
rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens,
Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked
with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces
where they confronted economic, educational, public health,
political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and
interference. Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better
Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an
important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of
Black women activists who uplifted their communities while
subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.
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