Title Urban Black women and the politics of resistance / by Zenzele Isoke

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource Series The politics of intersectionality Politics of intersectionality. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Framing Black Women's Resistance: A Black Feminist Intersectional Approach; 3 Making Place in Newark: Neoliberalization and Gendered Racialization in a US City; 4 (Re)Imagining Home: Black Women and the Cultural Production of Blackness in Newark; 5 The Politics of Homemaking:Black Feminist Transformations of a Cityscape; 6 Mobilizing after Murder: Black Women Queering Politics and Black Feminism in Newark; 7 Keepin' Up the Fight: Young Black Feminists and the Hip Hop Convention Movement 8 The Audacity to Resist: Black Women, Social Capital, and Black Cultural ProductionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary 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, 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, this book 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject African American women -- Political activity -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History African American women political activists -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History African American feminists -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History African Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Social conditions Feminism -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship. African American feminists African American women political activists African American women -- Political activity African Americans -- Social conditions Feminism Race relations Social conditions SUBJECT Newark (N.J.) -- Race relations Newark (N.J.) -- Social conditions Subject New Jersey -- Newark Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137045386 1137045388 9780230339033 0230339034

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