{"product_id":"we-are-each-others-business-nicole-marie-brown-9780231205221","title":"We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people's inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. \u003ci\u003eWe Are Each Other's Business\u003c\/i\u003e examines Black women's leadership within the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, recasting their consumer activism as a form of Black feminist technology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicole M. Brown calls for understanding the Black women of the Welfare Rights Movement as sophisticated strategists who engaged the tensions among capitalism, consumerism, and economic liberation. She analyzes Black women's engagement with consumer credit, tracing how they linked consumption with citizenship and critiqued the state's treatment of the poor. Brown offers a radical reframing of the struggle between Black women and the state as a battle of technologies, showing how Black women challenged \"algorithmic assemblages of race, class, and gender\" and \"analog algorithms of poverty.\" She also shows how racism, sexism, and classism stifled opportunities for alliances: although the Welfare Rights Movement converged with consumer and women's rights movements, white and middle-class activists were unwilling to recognize poor Black women as fellow political actors. Bringing together historical sociology, computational methods, and intersectional Black feminist theory, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Each Other's Business\u003c\/i\u003e offers innovative and generative insights into Black women's struggle for political and economic equity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicole Marie Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231205228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231205221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Nicole Marie Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311321567487,"sku":"9780231205221","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88bd03ec-b580-4c93-aa65-c80a8adccb16.jpg?v=1730889229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-are-each-others-business-nicole-marie-brown-9780231205221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}