Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Case
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
New South ◽  
The South ◽  
American Women ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Reconstruction Era

A comparison of two Georgia schools, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, for elite whites, and Spelman Seminary of Atlanta, for African American women, both sought to prepare young women post-Reconstruction era. Founders and faculty strove to mold young women who would demonstrate the modernity and progressiveness of the South, as the schools themselves defined them. Race, class, and ideology shaped the definition and form of secondary education offered at the schools, creating some profound differences, but both emphasized morality and respectability, as both wanted to create women whose exemplary behavior would shield their public activism from reproach. Students and alumnae also sought to use their education to take a more public role in the New South.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Case
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
New South ◽  
American Women ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
White Elite

This chapter provides an overview of two private Georgia schools that sought to prepare young women post-Reconstruction South: Spelman Seminary of Atlanta, educating African American women and girls, and Lucy Cobb Institute, established for young white elite women in Athens. Examining schools for girls run and staffed by women allows us to see how women themselves developed new ideas about women’s responsibilities and duties for their society and their race in the changed circumstances of the New South. It argues that concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the two schools, despite their very different interpretations of what would constitute a desirable New South.

scholarly journals THE SEQUEL: THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT, THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT, AND SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN'S STRUGGLE TO VOTE

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liette Gidlow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
The South ◽  
American Women ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Fifteenth Amendment

This essay reframes both the woman suffrage narrative and narratives of African American voting rights struggles by focusing on the experiences of southern African American women between the 1870s and the 1920s. It argues that the Fifteenth Amendment remained central to their suffrage strategy long after the failure of the “New Departure” to win court sanction caused white suffragists to abandon it. As white supremacists in the South worked at the turn of the century to disfranchise black men, leading African American suffragists such as Mary Church Terrell, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and Adella Hunt Logan called for the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as well as the enfranchisement of black women. After the federal woman suffrage amendment was ratified in 1920, many southern African American women encountered the same barriers to voting—obstructionist tactics, threats, and violence—that black men had faced a generation earlier. In short, for aspiring African American voters in the South, the failure of the Nineteenth Amendment to secure voting rights for black women constituted a sad sequel to the failure of the Fifteenth Amendment to secure voting rights for black men.This interpretation offers three significant interventions. It pairs the Reconstruction-era Amendments with the Nineteenth Amendment, recognizing their shared focus on voting rights. It connects the voting rights struggles of southern African Americans across genders and generations. Finally, it finds that, for some women, the canonical “century of struggle” for voting rights continued long after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.

scholarly journals Age-related associations between substance use and sexual risk behavior among high-risk young African American women in the South

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Andrea Swartzendruber ◽  
Jennifer L. Brown ◽  
Jessica M. Sales ◽  
Michael Windle ◽  
Regine Haardörfer
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
African American ◽  
High Risk ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Risk Behavior ◽  
The South ◽  
American Women ◽  
Age Related

Sexual agency versus relational factors: a study of condom use antecedents among high-risk young African American women

Sexual Health ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
Ralph J. DiClemente ◽  
Gina M. Wingood ◽  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Sara Head ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Male Partners ◽  
American Women ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Hiv Acquisition

Background: The influence that female partners exert regarding condom use is not well known. In the present study, the relative roles of personal sexual agency and relational factors in determining whether young African American women engaged in unprotected vaginal sex (UVS) were studied. Methods: A cross sectional study of 713 young, African American women (aged 15–21 years) was conducted. Data were collected using an audio-computer assisted self-interview. Three measures of sexual agency were assessed and three relational factors were assessed. To help assure validity in the outcome measure, condom use was assessed in five different ways. Multivariate analyses were used to determine whether variables independently predicted UVS. Results: Two of the six predictor variables achieved multivariate significance with all five measures of condom use: (1) fear of negotiating condom use with male partners, and (2) indicating that stopping to use condoms takes the fun out of sex. A relational factor (male-dominated power imbalances) achieved multivariate significance for four of the five measures of UVS. A sexual agency factor (whether young women greatly enjoyed sex) achieved multivariate significance for three of the five measures. Conclusion: The results suggest that young African American women at high-risk of sexually transmissible infections (STI)/HIV acquisition may experience male-dominated power imbalances and also fear the process of negotiating condom use with their male partners. Although these factors were independently associated with UVS, two factors pertaining to sexual agency of these young women were also important predictors of UVS. Intervention efforts designed to avert STI/HIV acquisition among young African American women should therefore include programs to address both sexual agency and relational factors.

scholarly journals “She Told Them, Oh That Bitch Got AIDS”: Experiences of Multilevel HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma Among African American Women Living with HIV/AIDS in the South

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 349-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Fletcher ◽  
Lucy Annang Ingram ◽  
Jelani Kerr ◽  
Meredith Buchberg ◽  
Libby Bogdan-Lovis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
The South ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Related Stigma ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids
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