The radical imagination of Black women : ambition, politics, and power /

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Author / Creator:Ford, Pearl K., 1972- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Description:xi, 211 pages ; 21 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13263024
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Varying Form of Title:Ambition, politics, and power
ISBN:9780197650790
0197650791
9780197650806
0197650805
9780197650820
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The Radical Imagination of Black Women: Ambition, Politics and Power explores how elite Black women decide to seek political office. Despite their marginalized existence Black women engage in a robust political participation that includes seeking elected office. Utilizing interviews of Black women who currently or have served in office and focus group data of Black women, the manuscript bridges the literatures of ambition theory and marginalization through a theory I refer to a "ambition on the margins". Black women's resistance to marginalization informs us about the conditions that shape Black women and their political socialization, while ambition theory helps us understand what they do in response to marginalization. The socialization process fosters the decision-making process of Black women. This framework moves the extant literature beyond the premise that the political ambition of Black women is less than White women or men. Political science's approach to ambition negates and disregards mechanisms beyond voting that Black women often engage in such as doing political work through community and civic organizations. That data provided from interviews reveal the complex dynamics that contribute to the nuanced process that Black women emerge as candidates and engage as politicians"--
Other form:Online version: Ford, Pearl K., 1972- Radical imagination of Black women New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] 9780197650820

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