Deborah Elizabeth Whaley: Disciplining Women

Cover: 9781438432724 | Disciplining Women | Deborah Elizabeth Whaley | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Women focuses on the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, established in 1908. In this innovative interdisciplinary analysis of AKA, Deborah Whaley combines ethnographic field work, archival research, oral history, and interpretive readings of popular culture and sorority rituals to examine the role of the Black sorority in women's everyday lives and more broadly within public life and politics. The study includes sorority members' stories of key cultural practices and rituals, including political participation, step dancing, pledging, hazing, and community organizing. While she remains critical of the shortcomings that plague many Black social organizations with activist programs, Whaley shows how AKA's calculated cultivation of sorority life demonstrates personal and group-directed discipline and illuminates how cultural practices intersect with politics and Black public life.

Über den Autor

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781438432724
ISBN-10:	1438432720
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth
Hersteller:	SUNY Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2010
Gewicht:	0,371 kg