Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Given the growth of women’s and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis. “...an outstanding contribution that is very highly recommended.” — Midwest Book Review “This new book clearly illumines the vibrant, radical, and transformative labor of women of color and black feminists against racist, sexist, classist, imperialist, and other oppressive dynamics ... Highly recommended.” — CHOICE “Are All the Women Still White? blends traditions of feminist-of-color struggle with the innovative insights of twenty-first-century thinkers, artists, and activists. For anyone engaged in inclusive, multi-issued work, this book is indispensable.” — Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender, also published by SUNY Press. Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Janell Hobson A Poem for Dead Hearts (for an ignorant mo’ fo) Jamie D. Walker Part I. RETHINKING SOLIDARITY, BUILDING COALITION A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Alicia Garza Are All the Blacks Still Men? Collective Struggle and Black Male Feminism Darnell L. Moore and Hashim Khalil Pipkin Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex: Women of Color Transforming Antiviolence Work Julia Chinyere Oparah Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing Andrea Smith Part II. SITUATING IDENTITIES, RELOCATING FEMINISMS Renegade Architecture Epifania Amoo-Adare “Still at the Back of the Bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle Jessi Gan Theoretical Shifts in the Analysis of Latina Sexuality: Ethnocentrism, Essentialism, and the Right (White) Way to be Sexual Ana M. Juárez, Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain, and Susana L. Gallardo The Power of Sympathy: The Politics of Subjectifying Women Purvi Shah Part III. REDEFINING DIFFERENCE, CHALLENGING RACISM The Proust Effect Gigi Marie Jasper Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Women of Color in the Academy Patti Duncan Toxic or Intersectional? Challenges to (White) Feminist Hegemony Online Suey Park and David Leonard Note to Self Joey Lusk Part IV. RECLAIMING THE PAST, LIBERATING THE FUTURE Mary Magdalene, Our Lady of Lexington: A Feminist Liberation Mythology Raquel Z. Rivera It All Started with a Black Woman: Reflective Notes on Writing/Performing Rage Gina Athena Ulysse BOT I: A Performance Script in Two Parts Praba Pilar Black Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove: A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual toward the Postdigital Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace About the Contributors Index "Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis." -- Publisher's description Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex: Women of Color Transforming Antiviolence Work -- Against Complicity: Confronting State Violence -- From Crime and Punishment to the Victimization-Criminalization Continuum -- Removing the Cop in our Hearts: Toward Community Accountability -- Crossing Borders: Building Transnational Feminist Prison Praxis -- From Women Prisoners to People in Women's Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing -- Slavery/Capitalism -- Genocide/Colonialism More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave ( 1981 ). This updated collection expands upon the transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors reflect on transnational issues as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures