TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plastas,Melinda
TI  - A band of noble women: racial politics in the women's peace movement 
T2  - Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Syracuse, New York
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Internationale Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit
KW  - gnd
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - 1900-talet
KW  - sao
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - USA
KW  - Women and peace
KW  - Peace movements
KW  - African American women pacifists
KW  - Femmes et paix
KW  - Mouvements pacifistes
KW  - African American pacifists
KW  - Frauenbewegung
KW  - Friedensbewegung
KW  - Antirassismus
KW  - Frau
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Sozialreform
KW  - Ethnische Beziehungen
KW  - Kvinnor och fred
KW  - Fredsrörelser
KW  - Rasrelationer
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and index; Introduction : Race and the politics of peace and freedom -- African American women and the search for peace and freedom -- Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF -- Philadelphia : forging a national model of interracial peace work -- Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore : extending the network of interracial peace work -- Conclusion
N2  - A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women's peace movement and the black women's club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. Believing that achievement of improved race relations was a central step in establishing world peace, African American and white women initiated new political alliances that challenged the practices of Jim Crow segregation and promoted the leadership of women in transnational politics. Under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), they united the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance, suffrage-era organizing tactics, and contemporary debates on race in their efforts to expand women's influence on the politics of war and peace. Plastas shows how WILPF espoused middle-class values and employed gendered forms of organization building, educating thousands of people on issues ranging from U.S. policies in Haiti and Liberia to the need for global disarmament. Highlighting WILPF chapters in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore, the author examines the successes of this interracial movement as well as its failures. A Band of Noble Women enables us to examine more fully the history of race in U.S. women's movements and illuminates the role of the women's peace movement in setting the foundation for the civil rights movement
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34600
ER  -