What's left of blackness : feminisms, transracial solidarities, and the politics of belonging in ... britain

This book analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England in the late twentieth century. It situates these shifts alongside Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary in which to engage in struggles for social justice. "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.""-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction: London Is the Place for Me....Pages 1-16 Citizenship, Belonging, and the Racialized State....Pages 17-44 Revolutions of the Mind: Afro-Asian Politics of Change in Babylon....Pages 45-63 Transnational Black Diaspora Feminisms....Pages 65-91 Rac(e)ing the Nation: Black Politics and the Thatcherite Backlash....Pages 93-121 Citizenship, Neoliberal Welfare, and Women’s Community-Based Activism....Pages 123-144 Epilogue....Pages 145-148 Back Matter....Pages 149-189