For black Baptist women, race consciousness actively promoted rather than suppressed gender empowerment.
Evidence
The National Baptist Convention infused a similar consciousness in women, who formed more than 60 percent of the NBC’s membership.~*? But their interpretation of racial self-determination included a gender dimension. For women, race consciousness did not subsume or negate their empowerment as women, but rather encouraged it. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 764
Categorization
- QUESTION: How common was this non-competitive fusion of race and gender consciousness, versus a zero-sum trade between the two, in other movements of the era?
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s interest in how oppressed groups present an internal-versus-external front: here the two loyalties reinforce rather than conflict. — connects to: A separate women’s body allowed black Baptist women to speak for themselves, not men. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 689; Black women’s rising gender consciousness strengthened rather than split racial solidarity. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 251; Rising racial solidarity among black Baptists ran parallel to rising gender consciousness among women — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 709 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Black women’s rising gender consciousness strengthened rather than split racial solidarity.
#corroborates(0.90) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 251 - Rising racial solidarity among black Baptists ran parallel to rising gender consciousness among women
#expands(0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 709 - Black Baptist women’s separatism drew on both race and gender consciousness.
#corroborates(0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 334