Racial uplift work blurred gender dichotomies among black Baptists

Evidence

Racial consciousness placed black women squarely beside black men in a movement for racial self-determination, specifically in the quest for national black Baptist hegemony. From the perspective of racial self-help, this movement so blurred values and behavior exclusively associated with either the masculine or the feminine identity that it implicitly undermined the validity of gender dichotomies. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 664

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women blended feminine and masculine self-images as homemakers and soldiers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 650; Rising racial solidarity among black Baptists ran parallel to rising gender consciousness among women — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 709; Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 126 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors #exemplifies (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 126
• Rising racial solidarity among black Baptists ran parallel to rising gender consciousness among women #complicates (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 709
• Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift #qualifies (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388