Resistance reimagined : black women's critical thought as survival /
Fox, Regis M.,
Resistance reimagined : black women's critical thought as survival / Regis M. Fox. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique -- Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy -- "They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence -- The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order -- "Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song -- "Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance -- Conclusion: Roll call.
The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance.
9780813052120
African American women--History.
African American women--Political activity--History.
African American women civil rights workers--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.
African American women political activists--History.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .R475 2017
Resistance reimagined : black women's critical thought as survival / Regis M. Fox. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique -- Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy -- "They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence -- The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order -- "Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song -- "Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance -- Conclusion: Roll call.
The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance.
9780813052120
African American women--History.
African American women--Political activity--History.
African American women civil rights workers--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.
African American women political activists--History.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .R475 2017