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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 162 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-253-33447-0.)

Recently, historians of African American women have focused on the social welfare and race uplift work of black women's clubs at the turn of the century. They emphasize the breadth and importance of such work as well as analyze the problems encountered, such as class tensions between wealthier clubwomen and their poorer beneficiaries, and the difficulties faced when black clubwomen sought support from white women and government officials. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest is a welcome addition to that growing field. In it, Wanda A. Hendricks focuses on one state, Illinois, both for its contributions to the national club movement and for its unique circumstances as a midwestern state. . . .

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