Urban Black women and the politics of resistance
By: by Zenzele Isoke
Series: The politics of intersectionality
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230339033
Subjects: Race relations; African American women political activists; African Americans; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship; Political activity; African American women; Social conditions; African American feminists; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Feminism; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.