Black Women Imagining and Realizing Liberated Futures. Issue 3 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Edwards, Jessica; Walwema, Josie
• Is Part Of: Technical communication quarterly. Volume 31:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 262
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Black TPC -- Black Women in TPC -- Social justice/ethics -- History of technical communication/historical technical communication -- Black Technical Communication; Technical writing -- Periodicals; Technical writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 808.0666
• DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2022.2069289
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1057-2252

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the summer of 1881, a group of Black women formed The Washing Society of Atlanta by deploying extraorganizational technical communication to collectively bargain for better working conditions and wages. In this article, we illuminate the ways that Black women operated in a world dominated by an established order of racial hierarchy. We argue that the Washerwomen manifested a particular form of Black technical communication rooted in agency and advocacy.