"We Are Each Other's Business, by Nicole Marie Brown, explores the erasure of Black women's contribution to the strategic sophistication of the convergence of the Consumer Rights, Women's Rights, and Welfare Rights Movements in Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before what became the larger Welfare Rights Movement associated with the National Welfare Rights Organization. She argues that while Black women were central to this early period, they were stifled by the Consumer Rights and Women's Rights Movements ...
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"We Are Each Other's Business, by Nicole Marie Brown, explores the erasure of Black women's contribution to the strategic sophistication of the convergence of the Consumer Rights, Women's Rights, and Welfare Rights Movements in Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before what became the larger Welfare Rights Movement associated with the National Welfare Rights Organization. She argues that while Black women were central to this early period, they were stifled by the Consumer Rights and Women's Rights Movements inability to see poor Black women as fellow political actors. Brown analyzes Black women's use of the technology of consumer credit to demonstrate the vision and skill that these women deployed. Utilizing an archival and computational approach, the book's chapters focus on the similarities and differences of The Woodlawn Organization and Jobs or Income Now, how consumer spaces instill legitimacy, how poor people were caught by the Nixon administration's welfare policies, and it concludes with a consideration of how this effort failed and allowed for the rise of subprime lending in poor communities"--
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