Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance

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.

Auteur
Zenzele Isoke is Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, USA

Contenu
Framing Black Women's Politics: Spatializing Intersectionality, Spatializing Resistance Politics Out of Place: Black Women, Racialization, and Urban Resistance Historicizing Resistance: The Makings of a Marginal Community in the Central Ward The Politics of Homemaking: Black Feminist Transformations of a Cityscape Mobilizing after Murder: The Politics of the Life and Death of Sakia Gunn Keepin' Up the Fight: Black Feminism and the Hip Hop Convention Movement Social Capital, Political Space, and the Limits of Blackness