The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics
What is the ASBWP?
The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics is an organization designed to complement existing professional political science organizations by serving as a vehicle for promoting research on Black women in politics in the United States and across the globe. In addition, the ASBWP, while cognizant of the challenges people of color, women and other women of color face, recognizes the specific issues and concerns that are unique to Black women in the academy in general and within the political science profession in particular. As such the ASBWP is also committed to recruiting and mentoring women of African descent in political science.
What are the ASBWP's goals?
The goals of The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (ASBWP) are:
•To encourage and establish a network of political scientists whose scholarship is geared toward promoting the interdisciplinary, broad based study of Black women's political participation.
•To create scholarly mentoring designed to attract, retain, and professionally develop women political scientists of African descent in the academy.
•To encourage the production of scholarship on African American women and other women of African descent as a viable subject of study within the discipline of political science by: (a) examining the intersections, as well as the gaps and absences, among the subfields of Women & Politics, Black Politics, and Race, Ethnicity and Politics; (b) applying and revising traditional political science concepts as well as constructing new concepts and theoretical models as they relate to Black women as political actors in all subfields of political science; (c) engaging with and drawing upon the interdisciplinary scholarship in Women's Studies, hHstory, and African American/Africana Studies; and (d) encouraging undergraduate and graduate students to study Black women as political actors in U.S. and global politics.
The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics is an organization designed to complement existing professional political science organizations by serving as a vehicle for promoting research on Black women in politics in the United States and across the globe. In addition, the ASBWP, while cognizant of the challenges people of color, women and other women of color face, recognizes the specific issues and concerns that are unique to Black women in the academy in general and within the political science profession in particular. As such the ASBWP is also committed to recruiting and mentoring women of African descent in political science.
What are the ASBWP's goals?
The goals of The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (ASBWP) are:
•To encourage and establish a network of political scientists whose scholarship is geared toward promoting the interdisciplinary, broad based study of Black women's political participation.
•To create scholarly mentoring designed to attract, retain, and professionally develop women political scientists of African descent in the academy.
•To encourage the production of scholarship on African American women and other women of African descent as a viable subject of study within the discipline of political science by: (a) examining the intersections, as well as the gaps and absences, among the subfields of Women & Politics, Black Politics, and Race, Ethnicity and Politics; (b) applying and revising traditional political science concepts as well as constructing new concepts and theoretical models as they relate to Black women as political actors in all subfields of political science; (c) engaging with and drawing upon the interdisciplinary scholarship in Women's Studies, hHstory, and African American/Africana Studies; and (d) encouraging undergraduate and graduate students to study Black women as political actors in U.S. and global politics.