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.
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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.