From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem; voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious; political; and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis in collectivism—a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege the group over the individual—it explores the institutions that arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action and mass resistance. Craig Steven Wilder’s research is particularly exciting in its assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift from previous work which has viewed African-American male associations as derivative and imitative of white male counterparts; In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for investigating antebellum black institutions.
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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Do you like apple pie? Or is that passe? Or back in style? Or part of the camp culture?By (((Marco Buendia)))Introduction / Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky -- 1. Mending Rosa's "Working Ways": A Case Study of an African American Mother and Breadwinner / Karen W. Tice -- 2. The Sterilization of Willie Mallory / Steven Noll -- 3. Hospitalizing Maria Germani / Emily K. Abel -- 4. Taking on a Mother's Job: Day Care in the 1920s and 1930s / Elizabeth Rose -- 5. "Mother Made Me Do It": Mother-Blaming and the Women of Child Guidance / Kathleen W. Jones -- 6. Mother-Blaming / Paula J. Caplan -- 7. Antiracism and Maternal Failure in the 1940s and 1950s / Ruth Feldstein -- 8. "Momism" and the Making of Treasonous Homosexuals / Jennifer Terry -- 9. Bad/Good; Good/Bad: Birth Mothers and Adoptive Mothers / Betty Jean Lifton -- 10. Nonmothers as Bad Mothers: Infertility and the "Maternal Instinct" / Elaine Tyler May -- 11. On Being the "Bad" Mother of an Autistic Child / Jane Taylor McDonnell -- 12. "Immoral Conduct": White Women; Racial Transgressions; and Custody Disputes / Renee Romano -- 13. The Making of a "Bad" Mother: A Lesbian Mother and Her Daughters / Christine J. Allison -- 14. Mothering to Death / Su Epstein -- 15. On a Hickory Limb / Burton Rascoe -- 16. The Overprotective Mother / Herman N. Bundesen -- 17. How to Be a Jewish Mother: A Very Lovely Training Manual / Dan Greenburg -- 18. Murder in Alabama: American Wives Think Viola Liuzzo Should Have Stayed Home / Lyn Tornabene -- 19. Mothers Who Don't Know How / George Will -- 20. "Fetal Rights": A New Assault on Feminism / Katha Pollitt -- 21. Breastfeeding in the 1990s: The Karen Carter Case and the Politics of Maternal Sexuality / Lauri Umansky -- 22. Rejecting Zoe Baird: Class Resentment and the Working Mother / Diane Sampson -- 23. Moms Don't Rock: The Popular Demonization of Courtney Love / Norma Coates -- 24. Murdering Mothers / Annalee Newitz -- 25. On Fixing "Bad" Mothers and Saving Their Children / Annette R. Appell -- 26. Poisonous Choice / Rickie Solinger"With a distinct minority of American families living the two-parent; one-worker lifestyle touted as the norm;" the authors examine the question: "Do most mothers now qualify as 'bad' mothers in one way or another?"--Cover.The upshot of the selection here seems to be that people who hold mothers responsible for their actions (or lack of action) frequently have an agenda that has little to do with childraising. Also; that some of those people deserve to have bad names hurled at them. As the book was authored by various authors; there's something here for everyone.
