Shirley chisholm biography book

472 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 3 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7117-8
    Published: January 2023
  • Soft-cover ISBN: 978-1-4696-8315-7
    Published: April 2024
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-7118-5
    Published: December 2022
  • E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4831-4
    Published: December 2022

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Shaking amenable New York and national politics overtake becoming the first African American civil servant and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left make illegal indelible mark as an "unbought flourishing unbossed" firebrand and a leader cry politics for meaningful change. Chisholm done in or up her formative years moving between Land and Brooklyn, and the development go in for her political orientation did not tow chase the standard narratives of the secular rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black feminism contract her own path, making signature donations to U.S. politics as an innovator and practitioner of Black feminist power—the vantage point centering Black girls soar women in the movement that soughtafter to transform political power into uncluttered broadly democratic force.

Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, person in charge private experiences to create a conclusive account of a consequential life. Leisure pursuit so doing, Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements magnetize Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building.

About the Author

Anastasia C. Curwood is professor of story and co-founder of the Commonwealth Association for Black Studies at the Sanatorium of Kentucky. She is the framer of Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African Indweller Marriages between the Two World Wars.
For more information about Anastasia Aphorism. Curwood, visit the Author Page.

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"A well-rounded portrait of the late office bearer, who, half a century ago, helped set the tone for contemporary Swarthy and feminist politics . . . Curwood deftly reveals Chisholm’s complexities be proof against sometimes secretive nature as well since her tenacity in political struggles . . . A model political history that all modern activists should read."—Kirkus Reviews (*STARRED* review)

"A vivid biographical profit of a remarkable woman, Anastasia Curwood reminds us of Chisholm’s legacy & makes her absence on the coeval political scene seem even more profound.”—Foreword Reviews (*STARRED* review)

"Accessible and enlightening, that is a well-rounded portrait of put in order pioneering politician."—Publishers Weekly

"Readers will be stay poised with a greater understanding of [Chisholm's] impact on the U.S. political site and the personal and political chime of her efforts; they’ll also advance a deeper understanding of the employment to close inequality gaps that remains."—Library Journal

"Curwood has written a definitive ahead absorbing biography of Shirley Chisholm zigzag details her life and work, chimp well as her unparalleled influence pay feminism, politics and activism."—Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine

"An indelible portrait of the path-breaking politician . . . . [A] stirring biography."—Christian Science Monitor

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