User:Will randolph27/sandbox

“OPPRESSION AND POWER: THE UNIQUE STATUS OF THE BLACK WOMAN IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM.”

 * Black women "...intrinsic part of the black liberation struggle..." white women "...intimately connected with the white power-holders who oppress...", "...black women's position in the system which generates the injustices protested by these respective groups..."
 * "Racial caste system" which organizes America. Black women in lower caste and white women in a higher caste. Women of both races are discriminated against by male members.
 * "Black participation...white-dominated alliances...Populist party, organized labor, women's suffrage movement...has not erased the inferior status assigned to blacks in America."
 * Roles of white and black women "...tended to have different meanings within the political system."
 * Women's movement does not generally address intersectionality and is mostly focused on the plight of white women
 * "...redefinition of sex roles...can probably occur for white women without fundamentally restructuring the political system...this is not the case for black women."
 * Redefinition of the role of black women in society "...cannot be realized apart from a redefinition of the status of blacks generally in the American political system."
 * "...the overwhelming majority of black women consider as serious problems as providing low-income housing, helping poverty-stricken people, providing healthcare for everyone, and aiding the elderly...only a minority of the white women consider these as very serious problems."
 * "...as long as American society is stratified along racial lines, racial prejudice will be functional in any power struggle."
 * "...slave heritage, racial oppression, and sex discrimination make for the uniqueness of the black woman's position in the American political system. Racial oppression, intensified by sex discrimination, means that black women are subjugated to white women as well as white men. Moreover, white women are an inseparable part of the dominant group and black women are likewise related to the subjugated black group."

“How Can a Black Woman Be a Republican? an Intersectional Analysis of Identity Claims in the 2014 Mia Love Campaign.”

 * "Mia Love made history in 2014 as the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. Given the Republican Party's attempts to reach out to women and minority voters while simultaneously rejecting 'identity politics,'"
 * November 4, 2014, Mia Love was "...first Haitian-American elected to congress..." and "...first black Republican woman..." elected to Congress
 * "...Love's “conflicting” partisan and social identities drew overt media attention to her race and gender..."
 * "Of the 252 Republicans serving in the 116th Congress (2019–2020), only 21 (about 8%) are women and only is a woman of color. This is compared to 106 Democratic women (about 38% of the party caucus), 46 of whom are women of color"
 * "Republican voters and donors are less likely to explicitly place value in a candidate's identity, making it difficult for conservative organizations dedicated to electing women and minorities to thrive"
 * After their 2012 Presidential Election loss "...The Republican National Committee (RNC) recommended strategies for future elections in an “autopsy” report titled the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” which stressed the necessity of reaching out to women and minority voters – including recruiting and supporting diverse candidates"
 * "More specifically, she presented herself as a loving mother, a devoted wife, and the daughter of 'model' Haitian immigrants. Additionally, while the campaign shared news articles that described her explicitly as a black woman, Love used that narrative to draw attention to her conservative credentials."
 * Ludmya "Mia" Bordeau was born to Haitian immigrant parents in Brooklyn in the early 1970's
 * "Eventually, Love ran for mayor of Saratoga Springs and, in 2010, became the first black female mayor in the state of Utah. By 2012, Love entered her first congressional race, running in Utah's 4th congressional district."
 * "In August of 2012, she was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention, in what appeared to be an effort to symbolically showcase gender and racial diversity within the Republican Party"
 * "She was a conservative, black Republican woman endorsed by party leaders like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, as well as Tea Party organizations like FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express"
 * "After defeating her moderate Democratic opponent, Doug Owens, by a margin of 5.5%, Love said in a 2014 post-election interview, 'This had nothing to do with race … Utahns are not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender.'”