What''s Left of Blackness - Feminisms, Transracial Solidarities, Politics of Belonging in

Informationen zum Autor Tracy Fisher is Assistant Professor of Women s Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. Klappentext This book analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England in the late twentieth century. It situates these shifts alongside Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary in which to engage in struggles for social justice. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England in the late twentieth century. It situates these shifts alongside Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary in which to engage in struggles for social justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Citizenship, Belonging, and the Racialized State  Revolutions of the Mind: Bandung-Style Politics of Change in Babylon  Transnational Black Diaspora Feminisms  Rac(e)ing the Nation: Black Politics and the Thatcherite Backlash  Blackness and Beyond: State(d) Limits, Neoliberal Welfare, and Women's Politics

List of contents

Citizenship, Belonging, and the Racialized State  Revolutions of the Mind: Bandung-Style Politics of Change in Babylon  Transnational Black Diaspora Feminisms  Rac(e)ing the Nation: Black Politics and the Thatcherite Backlash  Blackness and Beyond: State(d) Limits, Neoliberal Welfare, and Women's Politics

Product details

• Authors: T Fisher, T. Fisher, Tracy Fisher, Fisher Tracy
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2012
• EAN: 9780230339170
• ISBN: 978-0-230-33917-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Comparative Feminist Studies; Comparative Feminist Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Society & culture: general, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Political science & theory, Media and Communication, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, economy;feminism;revolution;transformation;women;work