Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality.

Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

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• The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
• Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
• The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
• We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
• Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
• To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism
• Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present Book 6)