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AIWA makes sure its members get leadership opportunities so they can take action in their communities
What is promoting peer leadership?
This view/ideology, advocated by a group of prominent Black women, was considered to follow a Black radical vision.
Hint: Some successes that followed this view lead to the successful organizing of workers at Reynolds Tobacco Company in North Carolina, as well as electing the first Black city council member in 1947.
The answer should be along the lines of: "civil and human rights were inseparable from labour rights".
AIWA's use of intersectionality transforms feelings of voicelessness and devaluation into what positive outcome?
empowered self-representation and action
This policy, introduced by the Modi government, has sparked protests in India with more than 250 million people participating. The policy aims to eliminate state-regulated agricultural markets and will destroy small farmers.
neoliberal agricultural policy
What party does Robin Kelly say was relatively different from other parties at the time (in the 1930s), since it generally centered anti-racism and rejected colourblindness?
the Communist Party?
This post-war campaign, organized in the South, ended in total failure but was successful when Black workers were in leadership positions.
What is Operation Dixie?
Instead of letting other people speak for them, AIWA encourages women to take charge and tell their own stories
What is deploying intersectionality?
What era of repression in North America was responsible for targeting labour organizing, specifically targeting more militant and antiracist unions that refused to sign onto the restrictive Taft-Hartley act?
The Cold War era
AIWA shows that immigrant women often face extra challenges because they aren't fluent in English. What is this specific type of discrimination called?
Language discrimination
Where did the largest workers revolts of the 19th and 20th century occur?
The Global South
This term explains how racism, sexism, and classism all mix together and affect people at the same time
What is intersectionality?
This group has been at the forefront of the labour movement, especially in the 19th century.
Black workers.
(This term) creates serious racial, class, and gender inequalities, while keeping some white workers precarious and directing blame onto Black and Brown workers.
What is Racial Capitalism?
This person wrote the book Capital. The often quoted line from the book: "Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded" This was also A. Philip Randolph's opening remarks at the 1963 march on Washington.
Karl Marx.
This California-based group helps low-wage immigrant women workers stand up for themselves and become leaders
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)