Sheilena M Downey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheilena M Downey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheilena M |
| FAMILY NAME | Downey |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNEY S M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Precursor to Women of Color Feminism
The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World (ICWDR) was founded in 1922 by prominent members of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). This exclusive council, initially comprising eighteen well-educated and highly respected middle-class African American women, was actively engaged in a variety of political agendas and social reform efforts locally and nationally. Situating discrimination of African Americans acr…
Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas
As female attorneys celebrated their newly acquired right to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1879, contemporaneously, the War of the Pacific was unfolding in the Southern Hemisphere. The War of the Pacific—a territorial conflict between Bolivia, Peru, and Chile— hindered the United States’ ability to conduct foreign commerce as well as threatened the territorial integrity of the Americas (Bastert 1959: 379). These two seemingly unrel…
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Precursor to Women of Color Feminism
The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World (ICWDR) was founded in 1922 by prominent members of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). This exclusive council, initially comprising eighteen well-educated and highly respected middle-class African American women, was actively engaged in a variety of political agendas and social reform efforts locally and nationally. Situating discrimination of African Americans acr…
Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas
As female attorneys celebrated their newly acquired right to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1879, contemporaneously, the War of the Pacific was unfolding in the Southern Hemisphere. The War of the Pacific—a territorial conflict between Bolivia, Peru, and Chile— hindered the United States’ ability to conduct foreign commerce as well as threatened the territorial integrity of the Americas (Bastert 1959: 379). These two seemingly unrel…
History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Alliance (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Constitution (1 work) · Economic history (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work) · Feminism (1 work)