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001 2012013214
003 DLC
005 20151028075341.0
008 120403s2012 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2012013214
020 $a9780230339170 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDA125.N4$bF57 2012
082 00 $a305.48/896073$223
084 $aSOC032000$aSOC002010$aPOL000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aFisher, Tracy.
245 10 $aWhat's left of Blackness :$bfeminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in Britain /$cTracy Fisher.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2012.
300 $axvii, 189 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aComparative feminist studies
520 $a"What's Left of Blackness analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England from the late 1960s until the 2000s. Tracy Fisher situates these transformations alongside shifts in Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary through which to engage in struggles for social justice. She argues, that mapping black women's socially engaged political groups--within Britain's changing sociopolitical economic context--reveals the ways in which groups transformed from anti-imperialist organizations to service provisioning groups, all the while they redefined and expanded the very meaning of "the political.""--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aBlack women$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomanism$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aCitizenship$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.$2bisacsh