Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom : A Caribbean Genealogy / by Denise Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, Denise, Author.

Series:

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times, 2947-437X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Sex.

Emigration and immigration.

Race.

Philosophy of mind.

Self.

Social history.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Gender Studies.

Human Migration.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Philosophy of the Self.

Social History.

Local Subjects:

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Gender Studies.

Human Migration.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Philosophy of the Self.

Social History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages).

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom. It argues that in seeking to escape liberalism’s gendered and racialised governmentalities, Black women’s everyday self-making practices construct decolonising and feminising epistemologies of freedom. These, in turn, repeatedly interrogate the colonial logics of liberalism and Britishness. Genealogically structured, the book begins with the narratives of freedom and identity presented by Black British Caribbean women. It then analyses critical moments of crisis in British racial rule at home and abroad in which gender and Caribbean women figure as points of concern. Post-war Caribbean immigration to the UK, decolonisation of the British Caribbean and the post-emancipation reconstruction of the British Caribbean loom large in these considerations. In doing all of this, the author unravels the coloniallegacies that continue to underwrite contemporary British multicultural anxieties. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of social and cultural history, politics, feminism, race and postcoloniality.

Contents:

Introduction: Decolonising and Feminising Freedom

Part I. Narratives of Black Britishness and Black Womanhood

Chapter 1. Turning History Upside Down

Chapter 2. The Old and New Ethnicities of Postcolonial Black Britishness

Chapter 3. Standing in the Bigness of who I am’: Independent Women and the Paradoxes of Freedom

Part II. Colonial Liberalism and Black Freedom

Chapter 4. Two Reports, One Empire: Race and Gender in British Post-War Social Welfare Discourse

Chapter 5. Discrepant Women and Imperial Patriarchies

Part III. Neoliberalism's Postcolonial Liberties

Chapter 6. Beyond Racial Trauma: Remembering Bodies, Healing the Self

Chapter 7. Taking Liberties with Neoliberalism: Compliance and Refusal

Chapter 8. Conclusion: Rebellious Histories and the Postcolonial Problem of Freedom. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137449511

1137449519