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African American women and Christian activism :

0674007786

9780674007789

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African American women and Christian activism :

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New York's black YWCA, 1905-1945

Judith Weisenfeld.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London

Harvard University Press

1998

256 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction "Bend the Tree While It Is Young": Institutional Alliances/Institutional Appropriations African American Women and the Politics of Racial Uplift YWCA Social Reform Work African American Women and the National YWCA "If One Life Shines": African American Women in Networks Laying an Activist Foundation Conflicting Visions Conflicting Visions "The Home-Made Girl": Constructing a Mobile Private Space Racially Charged Public Space Racialized and Gendered Public Space At "Home" in New York Performing the Private in Public "We Are It": Building on the Urban Frontier "Harlem Rides the Range" Toward a "Room " of Their Own Internal Frontiers "Interwoven Destinies": Wars at Home and Abroad The Crisis of the World "The Girl You Leave Behind" An Urban Homefiront "A Grand Place": Black America's Community Center A Community Center Educating for Christian Democracy Christianizing City Politics Girls' Work Leadership Training "Against the Tide": Interracial Work and Racial Conflict Notes Index Abbreviations

African American women -- Religious life.

African Americans -- Religious life.

Christian life.

Judith Weisenfeld.

Judith Weisenfeld

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