Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46: (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
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Nancy Robertson (Author)
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As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the twentieth century. In Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46, Nancy Marie Robertson shows how women of both races employed different understandings of "Christian sisterhood" in their responses. Although the YWCA was segregated at the local level, African American women were able to effectively challenge white women over YWCA racial policies and practices. Robertson argues that from 1906 through 1946, many white women in the association went from seeing segregation as compatible with Christianity and democracy to regarding it as a contradiction of those values. These struggles laid the groundwork for the subsequent civil rights movement. Her analysis relies not only on a large body of records documenting YWCA women at the national and local levels, but also on autobiographical accounts and personal papers from women associated with the YWCA, including Dorothy Height, Lugenia Burns Hope, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Lillian Smith.
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Nancy Marie Robertson is an associate professor of history and philanthropic studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she also directs the women's studies program.
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- Contributor: Nancy Robertson
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252077104
- Number of Pages: 304
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x20mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 2010-06-28
- Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Nancy Marie Robertson is an associate professor of history and philanthropic studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she also directs the women's studies program.
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