Guest Editors’ Note

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About the Guest Editors

Prudence Cumberbatch received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of “What ‘the Cause’ Needs Is A ‘Brainy and Energetic Woman’: A Study of Female Charismatic Leadership in Baltimore,” which appeared in the edited volume Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (NYU Press, 2009). She has also published in Radical History Review.

Dayo F. Gore is the author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War and editor of Want to Start of Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. Her current research projects include a book-length study of African American women’s transnational travels and activism in the long 20th century.

Sarah Haley received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies, and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies. She is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (UNC Press, 2016). She has also published in Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society.

Notes

Jones is a significant figure in black international and transnational intellectual history. Here we are referring to the work she produced in the United States, such as her (1949) “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” While the articles in this issue focus on African American history, we understand questions of black female labor, exploitation, bodily appropriation and violence, community and social movement formation in a broader diasporic context.

Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review 106 (June 1993): 1711; on “moral panic” see Hazel V. Carby, “Policing the Black Woman’s Body in an Urban Context.” Critical Inquiry 18 (Summer 1992): 738–55.

On the obsolescence of drudgery see Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, and Class (New York: Vintage Books, 1981), particularly chapter 13, “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework.”

The review of Mireille Miller-Young’s book in this special issues “Book Review” section as well as the Linda Burnham’s attention to LGBT employment in “By the Numbers” only scratches the surface of the range of the dynamic work currently being produced on this topic.

Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 31.

Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913; reprint, New York: Routledge Classics, 2003), 5.

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