Zusatztext 'As we trek into the next millennium...defending our humanity in the face of global capital, we very much need 'Other Kinds of Dreams'' - Angela Davis Informationen zum Autor Julia Sudbury is an assistant professor in Ethnic Studies at Mills College, Oakland, California, and the former director of Sia: The National Development Agency for the Black Voluntary Sector, based in London. Klappentext Accounts of political activism in African Caribbean and Asian communities often overlook the role of black women activists, contributing towards an image of passivity, apathy and exclusion. Through an empirical study of black women's organizations, this book interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialization, political mobilization and feminism relating experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions. "Other Kinds of Dreams" questions the homogeneity of the term "black" and asks whether increasing social stratification within black communities undermines this unity. It also analyzes the relationship between black women's organizations, black men and white feminists within the context of coalition for social transformation. Zusammenfassung Interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialisation, political mobilisation and feminism by relating the experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Writing against the grain: towards a womanist methodology; Chapter 3 'We don't just make tea': redefining political activism; Chapter 4 Talking across difference; Chapter 5 Articulating 'race', class and gender; Chapter 6 Sisters and brothers in struggle? Looking for coalitions; Chapter 7 Conclusions: from identity politics to the politics of transformation;

Autorentext
Julia Sudbury is an assistant professor in Ethnic Studies at Mills College, Oakland, California, and the former director of Sia: The National Development Agency for the Black Voluntary Sector, based in London.

Klappentext

Accounts of political activism in African Caribbean and Asian communities often overlook the role of black women activists, contributing towards an image of passivity, apathy and exclusion. Through an empirical study of black women's organizations, this book interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialization, political mobilization and feminism relating experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions.

"Other Kinds of Dreams" questions the homogeneity of the term "black" and asks whether increasing social stratification within black communities undermines this unity. It also analyzes the relationship between black women's organizations, black men and white feminists within the context of coalition for social transformation.

Zusammenfassung
Interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialisation, political mobilisation and feminism by relating the experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Writing against the grain: towards a womanist methodology; Chapter 3 'We don't just make tea': redefining political activism; Chapter 4 Talking across difference; Chapter 5 Articulating 'race', class and gender; Chapter 6 Sisters and brothers in struggle? Looking for coalitions; Chapter 7 Conclusions: from identity politics to the politics of transformation;