Jacqueline Jones (1) (1948–)
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Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Saving Savannah, American Work, and The Dispossessed, she lives in Austin, Texas.
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Jones’ portrait of Parsons shows her to have been a complex person: she had rigorous convictions and passionate intelligence, but she was abrasive and hypocritical (she vociferously critiqued fellow anarchist Emma Goldman’s advocacy of free love while herself engaging in multiple extra-marital relationships). Despite her public embrace of traditional gender roles and her promotion of herself as a sorrowful widow and doting mother, she had her son forceably committed to an insane asylum for the rest of his life and seems to have never visited him there once. Parsons gave fiery speeches in support of workers’ rights but determinedly ignored the needs of Black workers and vehemently denied her own racial identity.
There’s much to grapple with here in terms of Parsons’ legacy, and how to balance an admiration for her activism and her critique of respectability politics with a critique of how she could often tip over the line of being an ideologue. How do we fairly provide an accounting of the career of a Black woman who was courageous and forthright but not ultimately particularly likeable? It’s a thorny question. Jones, I think, is even-handed in her assessment of Parson, her life, and her career.… (mer)