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What's left of Blackness? : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain
Author:	FisherTracy.,
Place of Publication:	New York
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2012
Edition:	1st ed.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 189 p.)ill. :
Series:	Comparative feminist studies
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. -
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. -
Subject:	POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. -
Subject:	Women, Black - Social conditions. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Womanism - History. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Citizenship - History. - Great Britain -
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137038432
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
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.""--
ISBN:	9781137038432electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137038438electronic bk.
ISBN:	9781283738217
ISBN:	128373821X
ISBN:	hbk.
ISBN:	hbk.

What's left of Blackness? : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain
Fisher, Tracy.

What's left of Blackness? : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain / Tracy Fisher. - 1st ed.. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvii, 189 p.) ; ill.. - (Comparative feminist studies).
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9781137038432ISBN 1137038438ISBN 9781283738217ISBN 128373821X
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.Women, BlackWomanismCitizenshipSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies -- Social conditions. -- History. -- History. -- Great Britain -- Great Britain -- Great Britain

What's left of Blackness? : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain
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