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100 1 $aWhaley, Deborah Elizabeth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010008263
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,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axii, 206 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gChapter 1.$tStomp the Yard, School Daze, and the Cultural Politics of Black Greek-Letter Organizations -- $gChapter 2.$tAlpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Ambiguity of Social Reform -- $gChapter 3.$tStepping into the African Diaspora: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Production of Sexuality and Femininity in Sorority Step Performance -- $gChapter 4.$tDisciplining Women, Respectable Pledges, and the Meaning of a Soror: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Transformation of the Pledge Process -- $gChapter 5.$tVoices of Collectivity/Agents of Change: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Future of Black Counterpublics.
520 1 $a"Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Women 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" ""Disciplining Women provides a unique outsider's/insider's peek into a world known only to a very few, and it situates that world within a larger context of black culture and black women's activism."---Katrina Bell McDonald, author of Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women" ""Disciplining Women is a well-written scholarly engagement that drills deeper than most other recent works on this subject. As a political philosopher, I was impressed by the use of strong theory to shore up arguments."---Ricky L. Jones, author of Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGreek letter societies$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005001524
650 0 $aAfrican American Greek letter societies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005001522
650 0 $aAfrican American college students$xSocieties, etc.
610 20 $aAlpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86078716
852 00 $bglx$hLJ31$i.W43 2010
852 00 $bbar$hLJ31$i.W43 2010