| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Comparative feminist studies |
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Comparative feminist studies series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: London Is the Place for Me; One Citizenship, Belonging, and the Racialized State; Two Revolutions of the Mind: Afro-Asian Politics of Change in Babylon; Three Transnational Black Diaspora Feminisms; Four Rac(e)ing the Nation: Black Politics and the Thatcherite Backlash; Five Citizenship, Neoliberal Welfare, and Women's Community-Based Activism; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"What's Left of Blackness analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England from the late 1960s until the 2000s. Tracy Fisher situates these transformations alongside shifts in Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary through which to engage in struggles for social justice. She argues, that mapping black women's socially engaged political groups--within Britain's changing sociopolitical economic context--reveals the ways in which groups transformed from anti-imperialist organizations to service provisioning groups, all the while they redefined and expanded the very meaning of "the political.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women, Black -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Womanism -- Great Britain -- History
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Citizenship -- Great Britain -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Citizenship
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Womanism
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Women, Black -- Social conditions
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137038432 |
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1137038438 |
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9781283738217 |
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128373821X |
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9781349342198 |
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134934219X |
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