European University Institute Library

What's left of Blackness?, feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain, Tracy Fisher

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

What's left of Blackness?

bibliography

784125807

Tracy Fisher

Comparative feminist studies

feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain

"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.""--, Provided by publisher