Black female leaders gained stature by voicing masses’ complex blend of protest and accommodation.
Evidence
Leaders such as Burroughs, and also Virginia Broughton and Sarah Willie Layten, rose to prominence precisely because they articulated openly and eloquently the yearning and indignation, the joy and pain, the protest and accommodation of masses of unknown and unheard historical actors. Most of all they captured their people’s vision of America—a vision that was simultaneously optimistic and critical, but ultimately hopeful. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1036
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s core interest: how oppressed-group spokeswomen must voice protest AND accommodation simultaneously, the double audience of respectability politics. — connects to: Racism’s lumping of all black women together justified elite uplift toward the lowly — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 943; Black church women equated respectable public behavior with group advancement — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 93; Black women shaped collective sentiment through their two-thirds majority in the Baptist movement — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 63 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Black women shaped collective sentiment through their two-thirds majority in the Baptist movement
#exemplifies(0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 63 - Respectability discourse loaded black women with responsibility for the whole race
#expands(0.82) - Black church women equated respectable public behavior with group advancement
#expands(0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 93 - Black political advancement depended on protest and own-group organization.
#corroborates(0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3355 - Racism’s lumping of all black women together justified elite uplift toward the lowly
#expands(0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 943 - Black leaders sacrificed feminism to appear conservative and gain racial acceptance
#qualifies(0.73) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 510 - Black Baptist women mobilized a politics of respectability as resistance to consumer capitalism.
#qualifies(0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 954