HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Baptist Churches Usa, Class Conflict, Emancipation Day
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Emancipated women: african american political life: de ning freedom and politics. Protesting politics, collating funds to send a representative to washington. Mass meetings de nitely expressed a uniques democratic political discourse, we want to understand black political life and place of women in it. Uniques political culture we want to understand. A place that was constructed to re ect political culture of black people, there was a strong cultural based of this church that relied upon black traditions. Political culture it doesn"t look like the dominant white culture, why is it distinctive and what role women played in it. A space when talking about politics really validated emotion, validated peoples" experiences to learn from, ways of knowing, call upon tradition of call and response, encourages everyone to participate. Politics theres no notion about gender here. Black people really political ready, but it was argued they were not ready for politics because they did not talk about politics like whites did.
