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Urban Black women and the politics of resistance

Title
Urban Black women and the politics of resistance / by Zenzele Isoke.
Author
Isoke, Zenzele.
Publication
New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]

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Description
xv, 212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "Contemporary urban spaces are critical sites of resistance for black women. By focusing on the spatial aspects of political resistance of black women in Newark's Central Ward, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities. Activist women devote their lives to creating and sustaining clothing exchanges, sister-circles, rites of passage programs and other open and progressive spaces of struggle. In so doing, they transform blighted cityscapes into culturally symbolic homeplaces that nurture the life chances, leadership capacity of political efficacy of an emerging generation of activists. By documenting their political commitments and transformative projects, Isoke demonstrates how black women challenge, resist and transform converging systems of domination that circumscribe their lives"--
  • "Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance explores how three generations of black women have contested racism, poverty, and marginality in Newark, New Jersey. Isoke provides a black feminist ethnographic account of the unique and divergent forms of contemporary spatial resistance across the political terrain of hip hop activism, black queer activism, and the "politics of homemaking." Set in the heart of Newark's historically black Central Ward, Isoke argues that black women have forged a geography of resistance through their sustained efforts to transform the city"--
Series Statement
The politics of intersectionality
Uniform Title
Politics of intersectionality.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framing Black women's resistance : A Black feminist intersectional approach -- 3. Making place in Newark : neoliberalization and gendered racialization in a US city -- 4. (Re)Imagining home : Black women and the cultural production of Blackness in Newark -- 5. The politics of homemaking : Black feminist transformations of a cityscape -- 6. Mobilizing after murder : Black women queering politics and Black feminism in Newark -- 7. Keepin' up the fight : young Black feminists and the Hip Hop Convention movement -- 8. The audacity to resist : Black women, social capital, and Black cultural production -- Appendix --Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
Sc D 14-1303
ISBN
  • 9780230339033
  • 0230339034
LCCN
  • 2012017747
  • 40021930745
OCLC
769987235
Author
Isoke, Zenzele.
Title
Urban Black women and the politics of resistance / by Zenzele Isoke.
Imprint
New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The politics of intersectionality
Politics of intersectionality.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40021930745
Research Call Number
Sc D 14-1303
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