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

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.

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

About the author

Tracy Fisher is Assistant Professor of Women s Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: T Fisher, T. Fisher
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349342198
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34219-8
• 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