Resistance reimagined : black women's critical thought as survival /

The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic, the gap between democratic promise and dispossession, as a form of resistance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fox, Regis M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.