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JOIN the ASSOCIATION for the STUDY of BLACK WOMEN in POLITICS (ASBWP) TODAY!
What is the ASBWP?
The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics is an organization designed to complement existing professional political science organizations by serving as a vehicle for promoting research on Black women in politics in the United States and across the globe. In addition, the ASBWP, while cognizant of the challenges people of color, women and other women of color face, recognizes that there are issues and concerns unique to African American women in the academy in general and within the political science profession in particular. As such, the ASBWP is also committed to recruiting and mentoring women of African descent in political science. Membership is open to all political scientists, other scholars, and members of the non-academic community, who are interested in promoting the goals of the organization.
What are the ASBWP Goals?
Hence, the goals of the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (ASBWP) are:
- To encourage the production of scholarship on African American women and other women of African descent as a viable subject of study within the discipline of political science by: (a) examining the intersections, as well as the gaps and absences, among the subfields of Women & Politics, Black Politics, and Race, Ethnicity and Politics; (b) applying and revising traditional political science concepts as well as constructing new concepts and theoretical models as they relate to Black women as political actors in all subfields of political science; (c) engaging with and drawing upon the interdisciplinary scholarship in Women’s Studies, History, and African American/Africana Studies; and (d) encouraging undergraduate and graduate students to study Black women as political actors in U.S. and global politics;
- To encourage and establish a network of political scientists whose scholarship is geared toward promoting the interdisciplinary, broad based study of Black women’s political participation.
- To create scholarly mentoring designed to attract, retain, and professionally develop women political scientists of African descent in the academy;
“Generally speaking, as a discipline political science has been virtually silent on the subject of Black women as political actors. In fact, historians have penned most of what we know about Black women’s engagement with the political system. As political scientists, we need to take up the task of systematically documenting, analyzing, and theorizing about the multiple and complex ways Black women have behaved politically.”
—- Rose M. Harris
from the African American Political Woman: A Reader forthcoming from Rutgers University Press
Join Today!
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech University
Women’s Studies Department
Phone: (504) 231-7528
Fax: (540) 231-7013
Email: combahee@vt.edu
or
Rose M. Harris, Director
The Louisiana Center for Women & Government
Nicholls State University
Phone: (985) 448-4770
Fax: (985) 448-4771
Email: rose.harris@nicholls.edu
Founders
Dr. Jewel L. Prestage
Honorary Founder
Dr. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Co-Founder
Dr. Rose M. Harris
Co-Founder
Board of Directors
Dr. Eudine Barriteau
Dr. Gloria Braxton
Dr. M. Njeri Jackson
Dr. Mae C. King
Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee
Dr. Shelby Lewis
Dr. Mamie Locke
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes
Dr. Gayle T. Tate
Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Dr. Linda F. Williams
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