ISBN:
9780415167314
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (301 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version 'Other Kinds of Dreams' : Black Women's Organisations and the Politics of Transformation
DDC:
305.48/896/073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialisation, political mobilisation and feminism by relating the experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions
Description / Table of Contents:
'Other Kinds of Dreams' Black women's organisations and the politics of transformation; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Rethinking histories of migration and resistance; Black women's autonomous organisations; The creation of a funded black women's infrastructure; Documenting black women's agency; Making voices heard; Chapter 2 Writing against the grain: towards a womanist methodology; Standpoint theories: tuning into the 'outsider within'; Relocating 'experience'; From theory to method: constructing a research model
Description / Table of Contents:
Whose research is this anyway? From accountability to reciprocityOppositional narratives: developing a womanist voice; Chapter 3 'We don't just make tea': redefining political activism; The textual replication of gender inequality; En-gendering a new racialised politics; Invisible activism: empowering self family and community; From local to global: making the connections; Barriers to political activism; Creating alternative visions: black women catalysts; Conclusions; Chapter 4 Talking across difference; Reconstructing black womanhood; Challenging the centre; The battle for blackness
Description / Table of Contents:
Building bridgesColour, culture and 'new' racisms; Playing the funding game; Anti-essentialism: a new orthodoxy; Learning the language of black women organising; Conclusions; Chapter 5 Articulating 'race', class and gender; 'Race' and class: from articulation to formation; Social stratification in black communities; Competing minorities, competing models; Leaving our men behind?; Reintroducing and revisioning 'class'; Professional black women: a class-for-itself?; Chapter 6 Sisters and brothers in struggle? Looking for coalitions; Uniting against capital; Coalitions with black men
Description / Table of Contents:
Black women under attackRedefining black male activism; Looking for sisterhood; Moving on; Beyond white denial and black anger; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Conclusions: from identity politics to the politics of transformation; Approaching the new millennium; Visions of transformation; Appendix I Summary of case study organisations; Appendix II Chronology of black women organising autonomously in Britain; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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