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Finnegan, Cara A. Finnegan, Cara A. Murphy, John M. Cisneros, Josue D. Bailey, Ronald W. Mixon, Anita 2017-09-29T16:39:11Z 2017-09-29T16:39:11Z 2019-09-30T09:15:20Z 2017-06-23 2017-08 Institutions have been vital to the survival and uplift of Black communities. To that end, this dissertation analyzes how Black women -- as economic agents and women of faith -- used rhetoric within institutions to advocate and uplift their enclaved communities. Specifically, my dissertation explores how Black women used the discourse of labor unions and the Black Church to promote their enclaved communities in Black Chicago from 1919 to 1939. Black women often shouldered the work to help a community thrive and, while they may not be the public face of Black communities, their productivity in Black churches and labor unions challenges the male-centric narrative that Black men are more harmed by oppressive and discriminatory practices and, therefore, are in greater need of community initiatives, legislation, and protection. Through a rhetorical analysis of institutional documents from two labor unions and two Black churches that span across 20 years - including the boiling over of racial tensions, height of Black entrepreneurship, and the Great Depression - I demonstrate how Black women, both constrained and enabled by politics of respectability, worked as economic agents in defense of their labor/in advocating for greater economic equity for Black folk. My focus on the lived experiences of Black, urban Midwestern women thickens our understanding of concepts like institutions, community, identity-formation, civil rights, and citizenship. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01 The student, Anita Mixon, accepted the attached license on 2017-06-22 at 15:07. The student, Anita Mixon, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-06-22 at 15:18. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-06-23 at 14:54. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11252 on 2017-09-29 at 11:13:48 Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T16:39:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 MIXON-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 1465744 bytes, checksum: 28cae5a721393df452d362ccb707e295 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: f1e4183d6984342322e4c21b22efee5e (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4554 bytes, checksum: 77ad1bbd9ecbb78762f504a5a8214cda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-23 Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 103387 Lift date: 2019-09-29T16:39:52Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 103387 Lift date: 2019-09-29T17:52:45Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 103387 on 2019-09-30T09:15:20Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/98240 en Copyright 2017 Anita Mixon Respectability Rhetoric Institutions Black women Chicago Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939 text text Communication Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.