Global Black Feminisms

Author : Cheryl Higashida
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252093548

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Black Internationalist Feminism by Cheryl Higashida Pdf

Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat. Black internationalist feminism critiques racist, heteronormative, and masculinist articulations of nationalism while maintaining the importance of national liberation movements for achieving Black women's social, political, and economic rights. Cheryl Higashida shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Rosa Guy, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou worked within and against established literary forms to demonstrate that nationalist internationalism was linked to struggles against heterosexism and patriarchy. Exploring a diverse range of plays, novels, essays, poetry, and reportage, Higashida illustrates how literature is a crucial lens for studying Black internationalist feminism because these authors were at the forefront of bringing the perspectives and problems of black women to light against their marginalization and silencing. In examining writing by Black Left women from 1945–1995, Black Internationalist Feminism contributes to recent efforts to rehistoricize the Old Left, Civil Rights, Black Power, and second-wave Black women's movements.

Author : Andrea N. Baldwin,Tonya Haynes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000928709

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Global Black Feminisms by Andrea N. Baldwin,Tonya Haynes Pdf

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis. This text not only details how such praxis can be revolutionary for the academy but also provides poignant examples of the student scholarship that can be produced when such pedagogy is applied. Drawing on narratives from Black women around the globe, the book features chapters on pedagogy, mentorship, art, migration, relationships, and how Black women make sense of navigating social and institutional barriers. Readers of the text will benefit from an interdisciplinary, global approach to Black feminisms that centres the narratives and experiences of these women. Readers will also gain knowledge about the historical and contemporary scholarship produced by Black women across the globe. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, including graduate students in Caribbean feminisms, Black feminisms, transnational feminism, sociology, political science, the performing arts, cultural studies, and Caribbean studies.

Author : Andrea N. Baldwin,Tonya Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0367698544

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Global Black Feminisms by Andrea N. Baldwin,Tonya Haynes Pdf

"This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, including graduate students in Caribbean feminisms, Black feminisms, transnational feminism, sociology, political science, the performing arts, cultural studies, and Caribbean studies"--

Author : Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317550440

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Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson Pdf

The powerful Beyoncé, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a new incarnation of black feminism and black women’s agency, or are they only pure fantasy in which, instead of having agency, they are in fact the products of the forces of patriarchy and commercialism? More broadly, one can ask whether black women in general are only being led to believe that they have power but are really being drawn back into more complicated systems of exploitation and oppression. Or, are black women subverting patriarchy by challenging notions of their subordinate and exploitable sexuality? In other words, ‘who is playing who’? Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism identifies a generational divide between traditional black feminists and younger black women. While traditional black feminists may see, for example, sexualized images of black women negatively and as an impediment to progress, younger black women tend to embrace these new images and see them in a positive light. After carefully setting up this divide, this enlightening book will suggest that a more complex understanding of black feminist agency needs to be developed, one that is adapted to the complexities faced by the younger generation in today’s world. Arguing the concept of agency as an important theme for black feminism, this innovative title will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students interested in black feminist and feminist philosophy, identity construction, subjectivity and agency, race, gender, and class.

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135960131

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Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins Pdf

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

Author : Combahee River Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African American women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001980726

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The Combahee River Collective Statement by Combahee River Collective Pdf

Author : Jennifer C. Nash
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002253

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Black Feminism Reimagined by Jennifer C. Nash Pdf

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

Author : Zakiya Luna,Whitney Pirtle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452723

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Black Feminist Sociology by Zakiya Luna,Whitney Pirtle Pdf

Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity. The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book’s key themes.

Author : Heidi Safia Mirza,Cynthia Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317987185

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Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times by Heidi Safia Mirza,Cynthia Joseph Pdf

This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as racism in the media, exclusion in higher education, and critical multiculturalism in schools. Introducing new debates on transglobal female identity and cultures of resistance the book asks: How does black and postcolonial feminisms illuminate race and gender identity in new global times? How are race, gender and class inequalities reproduced and resisted in educational sites? How do women of colour experience race and gender differences in schools and universities? This book is a must for political and social commentators, academic researchers and student audiences interested in new feminist visions for new global times. This book was published as a special issue of Race, Ethnicity and Education.

Author : Akwugo Emejulu,Francesca Sobande
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ethnic studies
ISBN : 0745339484

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To Exist is to Resist by Akwugo Emejulu,Francesca Sobande Pdf

In a divided continent, women of colour come together to make a Black Europe visible.

Author : Andrea N. Baldwin,Menah Pratt-Clarke,Inaash Islam,Maria Scaptura,Gerlyn Murrell,Danielle Nora Noumbouwo,Davon Woodard,Jordan Fallon,Phillip Ray,Kimberly Williams,Sharon P. Johnson,Trichia Cadette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949373169

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Standpoints by Andrea N. Baldwin,Menah Pratt-Clarke,Inaash Islam,Maria Scaptura,Gerlyn Murrell,Danielle Nora Noumbouwo,Davon Woodard,Jordan Fallon,Phillip Ray,Kimberly Williams,Sharon P. Johnson,Trichia Cadette Pdf

Author : Njoki Nathani Wane,Notisha Massaquoi
Publisher : Inanna Publications & Education
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124036703

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Theorizing Empowerment by Njoki Nathani Wane,Notisha Massaquoi Pdf

Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women's experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist thought mean to Black Canadian feminists in the Diaspora? What does it means to have a feminist practice which speaks to Black women in Canada? In exploring this question, this anthology collects new ideas and thoughts on the place of Black women's politics in Canada, combining the work of new/upcoming and established names in Black Canadian feminist studies.

Author : Lucy Delap
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141985992

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Feminisms by Lucy Delap Pdf

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gender inequity of their age. In this absorbing book, historian Lucy Delap challenges the simplistic narrative of 'feminist waves' - a sequence of ever more progressive updates - showing instead that feminists have been motivated by the specific concerns of their historical moment. Drawing on an extraordinary range of examples from Japan to Russia, Egypt to Germany, Delap explores different feminist projects to show that those who are part of this movement have not always agreed on a single programme. This diverse history of feminism, she argues, can help us better navigate current debates and controversies. A tour de force from an award-winning expert, Feminisms shows that a rich relationship to the past can infuse today's activism with a sense possibility and inspiration.

Author : Tanja J. Burkhard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000536904

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Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research by Tanja J. Burkhard Pdf

Transnational Black Feminism and Qualitative Research invites readers to consider what it means to conduct research within their own communities by interrogating local and global contexts of colonialism, race, and migration. The qualitative data at the centre of this book stem from a yearlong qualitative study of the lived experiences of Black women, who migrated to or spent a significant amount of time in the United States, as well as from the author's experiences as a Black German woman and former international student. It proposes Transnational Black Feminism as a framework in qualitative inquiry. Methodological considerations emerging from and complementary to this framework critically explore qualitative concepts, such as reciprocity, care, and the ethics with which research is conducted, to account for shifts in power dynamics in the research process and to radically work against the dehumanization of participants, their communities, and researchers. This short and accessible book is ideal for qualitative researchers, graduate students, and feminist scholars interested in the various dimensions of racialization, coloniality, language, and migration.

Author : Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558619487

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The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn Pdf

Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective’s writings foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers’ personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore “Sex and Power in the Black Church,” discuss how “Clair Huxtable is Dead,” list “Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop,” and dwell on “Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?).” Self-described as “critical homegirls,” the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. “Refreshing and timely.” —Bitch Magazine “Our favorite sister bloggers.” —Elle “By centering a Black Feminist lens, The Collection provides readers with a more nuanced perspective on everything from gender to race to sexuality to class to movement-building, packaged neatly in easy-to-read pieces that take on weighty and thorny ideas willingly and enthusiastically in pursuit of a more just world.” —Autostraddle “Much like a good mix-tape, the book has an intro, outro, and different layers of based sound in the activist, scholar, feminist, women of color, media representation, sisterhood, trans, queer and questioning landscape.” —Lambda Literary Review