Remaking Black Power - How Black Women Transformed an Era

Examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood.

Summary

Examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley D. Farmer
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781469634371
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-3437-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Justice, Power, and Politics; Justice, Power and Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education