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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: T Fisher, T. Fisher
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349342198
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34219-8
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Comparative Feminist Studies; Comparative Feminist Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Studi di genere (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