Children’s mission columns encoded different kinship frames for white and black authors

Evidence

Familial designations accompanied the names of the columns’ authors, with “aunt” preceding the name of whites and “cousin” preceding that of blacks. … Children’s columns, whether appearing in southern black women’s newspapers or northern white women’s, were designed to instill a sense of civic responsibility and common cause in young children. Black Baptist children in Selma, Alabama, organized a page in the Baptist Woman’s Era, published by the black women of the state, to encourage racial self-help by donating pennies to Selma University. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 555

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why ‘aunt’ for whites and ‘cousin’ for blacks? The kinship asymmetry looks deliberate; worth chasing whether it encodes a respect/affection hierarchy in the women’s missionary world.
• SHARE: A colleague studying how kinship language marks racial hierarchy in religious print culture would savor this aunt-versus-cousin detail.
• XREF: connects to: Shared writing workshops build fictive kin among second-generation youth — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 490; Standardized early childhood curricula encode a white-supremacist moral color hierarchy — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 260; Derogatory labels predict how immigrants appear in children’s literature (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Derogatory labels predict degrading portrayals of minorities in children’s books #expands (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1270
• Colonial race-thinking substitutes ethnological difference for kinship with non-whites #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 106
• Shared traits falsely conjure an abstract familial connectivity with racial others defined as negation #expands (0.78)
• Fictive kinship terminology activates altruistic norms toward co-religionists #expands (0.76) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 385
• Derogatory labels predict how immigrants appear in children’s literature #expands (0.75)
• Standardized early childhood curricula encode a white-supremacist moral color hierarchy #corroborates (0.74) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 260
• Minority groups repurpose writing systems as boundary markers when threatened #exemplifies (0.73) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 659
• Shared writing workshops build fictive kin among second-generation youth #expands (0.72) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 490
• Different kinship and authority patterns generate different structures of emotional attachment #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1361