Research Catalog

Title

Urban Black women and the politics of resistance / Zenzele Isoke.

Author

Isoke, Zenzele

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

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

Politics of intersectionality

Uniform Title

Politics of intersectionality

Subject

• African American women > Political activity > History. > New Jersey > Newark
• African American women political activists > New Jersey > Newark > History
• African American feminists > New Jersey > Newark > History
• African Americans > New Jersey > Newark > Social conditions
• Feminism > New Jersey > Newark > History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
• African American feminists
• African American women political activists
• African American women > Political activity
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Feminism
• Race relations
• Social conditions
• Newark (N.J.) > Race relations
• Newark (N.J.) > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• History
• Electronic books
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Framing Black Women's Politics: Spatializing Intersectionality, Spatializing Resistance * Politics Out of Place: Black Women, Racialization, and Urban Resistance * Historicizing Resistance: The Makings of a Marginal Community in the Central Ward * The Politics of Homemaking: Black Feminist Transformations of a Cityscape * Mobilizing after Murder: The Politics of the Life and Death of Sakia Gunn * Keepin' Up the Fight: Black Feminism and the Hip Hop Convention Movement * Social Capital, Political Space, and the Limits of Blackness.

ISBN

• 9780230339033
• 0230339034

LCCN

^^2012017747

OCLC

• 853069163
• SCSB-12234863

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library