Título: With Her Fist Raised
Autor: Laura L. Lovett
Sinopse: The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the womens movement. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughess journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources. Hughess realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities. With expert research, which includes Hughess own accounts of her life, With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of a pivotal figure in womens history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “With Her Fist Raised”, de Laura L. Lovett, publicado pela editora Beacon Press, em 2021 e com 182 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Beacon Press
Páginas: 182
Ano: 2021
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0807008893
ISBN13: 9780807008898
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Beacon Press costumam oferecer uma leitura que combina rigor intelectual com uma abordagem profundamente humana, focando em temas urgentes como justiça social, racismo, identidade e história sob perspectivas frequentemente marginalizadas. A experiência de leitura é marcada por narrativas que desafiam o leitor a repensar conceitos estabelecidos, como nas análises sobre fragilidade racial, ativismo social e histórias indígenas, sempre com um tom que equilibra crítica e empatia. O catálogo apresenta obras que transitam entre o ensaístico e o poético, com textos que vão do relato histórico à reflexão filosófica, mantendo um ritmo que pode ser denso, porém acessível. Há uma diversidade temática que inclui desde investigações sobre estruturas sociais e políticas até poemas que exploram a espiritualidade e a natureza, revelando um compromisso com vozes que questionam e expandem o conhecimento.
