Resistance reimagined : black women's critical thought as survival / Regis M. Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Regis M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--History.

African American women.

History.

African American women--Political activity--History.

African American women civil rights workers--History.

African American women civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African American women political activists--History.

African American women political activists.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African American women--Political activity.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]

Summary:

The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance.

Contents:

Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique

Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy

"They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence

The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order

"Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song

"Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance

Conclusion: Roll call.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813056586

0813056586

OCLC:

993622908