{"id":210,"date":"2026-05-23T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:18:05","slug":"the-limits-of-black-nationalism-the-nation-of-islam-1930-75-as-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/2026\/05\/23\/the-limits-of-black-nationalism-the-nation-of-islam-1930-75-as-a-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Black Nationalism: The Nation of Islam (1930-75) as a Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Savannah Milton<br \/>\n<strong>Campus:<\/strong> CCNY <br \/>\n<strong>Major(s):<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n<strong>Minor(s):<\/strong> Women and Gender Studies<br \/>\n<strong>Professors: <\/strong>Lisa Brundage, Logan McBride<br \/>\n<strong>Macaulay Springboard 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My argument is that the Nation of Islam treats Black women as disposable even though they are used to legitimize Black nationalism. In my paper I perform a close reading of my sources to provide an intersectional feminist lens to analyzing research done about the Nation and how imagery of women are used to fulfill aspirations of nationhood. I also address and encourage my readers on how we can imagine freedom from the oppressive that don\u2019t rely solely on nationalism and its subsequent hierarchies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2026\/05\/The-Limits-of-Black-Nationalism_-The-Nation-of-Islam-1930-75-as-a-Case-Study-Savannah-M.pdf\">Read Full Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Components<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canva.link\/wk3a9ldra1od4dw\">Project Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel most proud that it is completed. This is a project that I feel will evolve with me for some time and I\u2019m excited to continue working on it. I selected my topic because I knew a lot about the Nation of Islam. However, looking at the Nation from the perspective of women has been transformative. My only knowledge came from men, although I have long suspected that the women\u2019s perspective differed. I encountered having to work backwards a lot. My mind can be all over the place and think non-linearly so most of my work in this project was going back through and adding citations to things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acknowledgements and Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to thank Lisa Brundige and Logan McBride for all their support and guidance through this process. I would also like to thank my classmates in SpringBoard for their feedback and creating a great environment to undergo this journey. I also want to thank Professor Asale Angel-Ajani and Professor Arielle Cribb for your suggestions and advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fields of Study<br \/>\n<\/strong>Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Humanities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Generative AI Disclosure<br \/>\n<\/strong>This project is proudly human-made<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My project focuses on how imagery of domestic Black women is used to convey strength of a Black nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,117,75,34,33,31,23,40,39],"tags":[136,137,139,138,140],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","category-bres","category-ccny","category-cultural-studies","category-gender-and-sexuality-studies","category-history","category-humanities","category-lisa-brundage","category-logan-mcbride","tag-black-feminism","tag-black-history","tag-intersectional-feminism","tag-nation-of-islam","tag-womens-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/springboard-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}