What's left of Blackness?
Subtitle: feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain
By: Tracy Fisher
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230339170
Subjects: Womanism; Citizenship; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Black women; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Social conditions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; History
Description: "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.""--