Feminism: The Postwar Black Women's Club Movement

Feminism: The Postwar Black Women's Club Movement

Introduction

This paper provides a reflection oof the article“The Postwar Black Women's Club Movement: The Intersection of Gender, Race, and American Political Development”, by A. Lanethea Mathews-Gardner.

Analysis

The article is organized in a coherent way that creates a flow to the reader. The author has focused on the issue of black women in the beginning and then talked about the women's club movement that establishes an organize manner of discussion.

The purpose of this article is to show the intersection of race, gender and American political development in the NACW in twentieth century. Author wrote this article to depict the important role of NACW and to depict that NACW was one of the biggest organizations that worried for the well being of black women [2].

The main thesis of the article is that the NACW worked for black women during the time when no other social institutions paid heed towards the minority issues. This thesis is compelling as it details out the intersection of the American society and the black women that the NACW brought about. The target audiences of this article are the African American Women, the civil society organizations and the political institutions because the focus is on conveying the role of NACW as providing a reform for the colored women.

When analyzing the central concept, the major emphasis of the author is that the membership of this organization was decentralized and widespread among the African women in America. The collective identity that defined the NACW was the local, not political, groups that provided way to more nationalize and political; reforms . The headquarters of the organization was originally located in New York, and is now in Baltimore. As a result, the association's activities during the XX century in the U.S. have been gradually abolished segregation and a host of other restrictions on the rights of black people . The articles argues that the clubwomen of NACW worked together and shard similar goals and believed with the African America. But they faced a transformation that was unique to women's club and not very common in the society. The endeavors of the NACQ integrated the collective identities that described the race and gender on one hand and detailed out the strategies of organization on the other hand. This called for theorizing the contemporary types of intersectionality.

The article makes a major contribution to the topic covered into this course by highlighting the social historical account of the lack female population in America and their effort of revolution. This course has been to analyze and interpret the events that helped changing the shape of society and this article serves his purpose. For example, the author states that, “the movement of black women in those years was giving its infancy, with a low political profile and little organizational experience”. Most countries had one or two organizations and others were relatively new. The organizations had a significant interaction with the movement feminist ...