Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance [electronic resource] /
Isoke, Z.author.
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, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 ProductionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities.
Political sociology.
Public policy.
Political science.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
African Americans.
Political Sociology.
Public Policy.
Political Science.
Gender Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
African American Culture.