Alter Natives - Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation

"A major work of cultural analysis, this book analyzes the black women's movement in Britain. It also engages such major questions as the oftentimes competitive relationship between race and gender and how to resist unjust social relations without imposing an equally oppressive hierarchical system."--Indira Karamcheti, Wesleyan University

About the author

Ranu Samantrai is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Claremont Graduate University

Summary

This is the history of the black British women's movement of the 1980s (comprising women of African-Caribbean and South Asian origin), and its place in postwar British politics, racism, and feminism.

Additional text

“A major work of cultural analysis, this book analyzes the black women’s movement in Britain. It also engages such major questions as the oftentimes competitive relationship between race and gender and how to resist unjust social relations without imposing an equally oppressive hierarchical system.”—Indira Karamcheti, Wesleyan University

Product details

• Authors: Ranu Samantrai
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780804743204
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4320-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Cultural Sitings (Hardcover); Cultural Sitings; Cultural Sitings
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories