Status Updates From Gender and Jim Crow: Women ...

Man, the later chapters of this book are a mess. A complete and total mess. I don’t think Gilmore does even nearly enough to delineate who is who and what is what. There’s 400 different boards, commissions, associations, clubs, and leagues to keep track of, all of which are just different configurations of the same core group of women. I’ve just totally given up on following any of this.

"Artificially excluded from the electoral realm, African Americans found that the rest of life took on a more political cast. Disfranchisement seemed to spur whites to vilify the African American family, putting the 'private' sphere in the middle of public life."

Brilliant observation. I'm so glad I'm going back and reading this book more carefully now.