Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Print.
Thesis:
Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life.
Substantive Questions:
1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without the assistance of Black religious women?
2.) How significant is the notion of survival and well-being to the constructs of activism?
Brief Summary: The author Rosetta Ross seeks to testify and explore black women’s religious context by looking at the background of several civil rights activist who continue the tradition of activism. Ross discusses the significance behind black women and religion. Elaborating upon the working forces of survival and liberation as the stepping stones to racial uplift and social responsibility. All while considering the moral practices behind black women and how religion impels them to face the gruesome challenges behind ultimate …show more content…
2.) How significant is the employment of respectability in the meaning of being an activist?
Brief Summary: The author Evelyn Higginbotham examines how crucial the church is in the role of the black women. The church is a powerful institution for social and political change within the black community, and black women has express that through the essential politics of respectability. Higginbotham take the times to show how women are one of the biggest force behind the church, even as tensions rise between male religious leaders. The politics of respectability seek to teach the constructs behind moving forward in creating a different definition for how America view the black woman, and the black community.
Analysis &
Thesis:
Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life.
Substantive Questions:
1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without the assistance of Black religious women?
2.) How significant is the notion of survival and well-being to the constructs of activism?
Brief Summary: The author Rosetta Ross seeks to testify and explore black women’s religious context by looking at the background of several civil rights activist who continue the tradition of activism. Ross discusses the significance behind black women and religion. Elaborating upon the working forces of survival and liberation as the stepping stones to racial uplift and social responsibility. All while considering the moral practices behind black women and how religion impels them to face the gruesome challenges behind ultimate …show more content…
2.) How significant is the employment of respectability in the meaning of being an activist?
Brief Summary: The author Evelyn Higginbotham examines how crucial the church is in the role of the black women. The church is a powerful institution for social and political change within the black community, and black women has express that through the essential politics of respectability. Higginbotham take the times to show how women are one of the biggest force behind the church, even as tensions rise between male religious leaders. The politics of respectability seek to teach the constructs behind moving forward in creating a different definition for how America view the black woman, and the black community.
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