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

Title
What's left of Blackness : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain / Tracy Fisher.
Author
Fisher, Tracy.
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Description
xvii, 189 pages : ill.; 23 cm.
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.""--
Series Statement
Comparative feminist studies
Uniform Title
Comparative feminist studies series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (and index.
Call Number
Sc D 15-413
ISBN
  • 9780230339170 (hardback)
  • 0230339174 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2012013214
  • 40021501101
OCLC
784125807
Author
Fisher, Tracy.
Title
What's left of Blackness : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain / Tracy Fisher.
Imprint
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Comparative feminist studies
Comparative feminist studies series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40021501101
Research Call Number
Sc D 15-413
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