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100 1 $aWhaley, Deborah Elizabeth.
245 10 $aDisciplining women :$bAlpha Kappa Alpha, Black counterpublics, and the cultural politics of Black sororities /$cDeborah Elizabeth Whaley.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2010.
300 $axii, 206 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-200) and index.
505 0 $aStomp the yard, School Daze, and the cultural politics of Black greek-letter organizations -- Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black counterpublics, and the ambiguity of social reform -- Stepping into the African diaspora: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the production of sexuality and femininity in sorority step performance -- Disciplining women, respectable pledges, and the meaning of a soror: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the transformation of the pledge process -- Voices of collectivity/agents of change: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the future of Black counterpublics -- Conclusion: Sorority sisters.
520 $aBlack Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. This book focuses on the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), established in 1908. In this innovative interdisciplinary analysis of AKA, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley combines ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, oral history, and interpretive readings of popular culture and sorority rituals to examine the role of the Black sorority in women's everyday lives and more broadly within public life and politics. The study includes sorority members' stories of key cultural practices and rituals, including political participation, step dancing, pledging, hazing, and community organizing. While she remains critical of the shortcomings that plague many Black social organizations with activist programs, Whaley shows how AKA's calculated cultivation of sorority life demonstrates personal and group-directed discipline and illuminates how cultural practices intersect with politics and Black public life. -- from Back Cover.
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