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We Are Each Other's Business
Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement
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English
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2024
About this book
Nicole M. Brown examines Black women’s leadership within the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, calling for understanding them as sophisticated strategists who engaged the tensions among capitalism, consumerism, and economic liberation.
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Nicole M. Brown is an associate professor of sociology at Saint
Mary’s College of California.
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Traci Parker, author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom
Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights:
We Are Each Other’s Business recasts the struggle between Black women and the state during the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement as a "battle of technologies." It reveals how these women skillfully used consumerism as activism to challenge deep-seated state injustices against poor women, presenting an engaging narrative of resilience and resistance.
We Are Each Other’s Business recasts the struggle between Black women and the state during the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement as a "battle of technologies." It reveals how these women skillfully used consumerism as activism to challenge deep-seated state injustices against poor women, presenting an engaging narrative of resilience and resistance.
Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech
Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor:
Brown’s ambitious and illuminating We Are Each Other’s
Business digs deep into the history of the welfare, women’s, and consumer
rights movements, demonstrating how poor Black women negotiated their status as
citizens and consumers to create lasting social change in Chicago and beyond. The
lessons she draws from the work of Temporary Woodlawn Organization, Jobs or Income
Now, and the National Welfare Rights Organization are just as urgent today.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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1 HARVEST
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2 BUSINESS
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3 MAGNITUDE
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4 BOND
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CONCLUSION
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APPENDIX A
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APPENDIX B
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NOTES
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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August 20, 2024
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9780231555906
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