What's left of Blackness?

By Tracy Fisher

Subjects: Womanism, Women, social conditions, Black women, Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Women, black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social conditions, Women, great britain, History

Description: "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.""--