Anna Julia Roberts:
★ Wrote the book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
(1892)
- Widely viewed as one of the 1st articulations of Black Feminism
- Argued that the educational, moral, and spiritual progress of Black
women would improve the general standing of African-American
community
Ida B. Wells:
- Published her research on lynching in a pamphlet titled Southern
Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
- Examined many accounts of lynching due to the alleged “rape of
white women”, she concluded that Southerners cried rape as an
excuse to hide their real reasons behind lynching
Themes:
1. The creation of sociology must be from the standpoint of the
oppressed, the project of social analysis is justice, and the method is
cross-examination
Social justice was fueled by a resistance to oppression
Involved witnessing what was happening as a means to empower the
African American community exposing the oppressors, and appealing to
the conscience of potentially supportive politics
Two principles in their work:
● Whether the actors in the situation are true to their professed
principles
● Whether the actors in the situation conform to the analysis and
principles of just behavior
Cooper thought the truth was rooted in religion
Argued that white Americans did not align their civil and political lives
with the morals they derived from religion
2. Cooper and Wells-Barnett analyzed situations-at-hand in terms of
the degree to which difference and power acted pathologically, as
domination, or justly, as equilibrium
● Power and difference by race, class, gender, and geopolitical
position affect life outcomes for individuals and groups
★ Wrote the book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
(1892)
- Widely viewed as one of the 1st articulations of Black Feminism
- Argued that the educational, moral, and spiritual progress of Black
women would improve the general standing of African-American
community
Ida B. Wells:
- Published her research on lynching in a pamphlet titled Southern
Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
- Examined many accounts of lynching due to the alleged “rape of
white women”, she concluded that Southerners cried rape as an
excuse to hide their real reasons behind lynching
Themes:
1. The creation of sociology must be from the standpoint of the
oppressed, the project of social analysis is justice, and the method is
cross-examination
Social justice was fueled by a resistance to oppression
Involved witnessing what was happening as a means to empower the
African American community exposing the oppressors, and appealing to
the conscience of potentially supportive politics
Two principles in their work:
● Whether the actors in the situation are true to their professed
principles
● Whether the actors in the situation conform to the analysis and
principles of just behavior
Cooper thought the truth was rooted in religion
Argued that white Americans did not align their civil and political lives
with the morals they derived from religion
2. Cooper and Wells-Barnett analyzed situations-at-hand in terms of
the degree to which difference and power acted pathologically, as
domination, or justly, as equilibrium
● Power and difference by race, class, gender, and geopolitical
position affect life outcomes for individuals and groups
