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Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
Cheryl Higashida
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Description for Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
Hardback. Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat. Black internationalist feminism critiques racist, heteronormative, and masculinist articulations of nationalism while maintaining the importance of national liberation movements for achieving Black women's social, political, and economic rights. Cheryl Higashida shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice ... Read more
Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat. Black internationalist feminism critiques racist, heteronormative, and masculinist articulations of nationalism while maintaining the importance of national liberation movements for achieving Black women's social, political, and economic rights. Cheryl Higashida shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036507
SKU
V9780252036507
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About Cheryl Higashida
Cheryl Higashida is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Reviews for Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
"Indispensable reading for the project of intellectual decolonization of the Cold War era."
Against the Current "A powerful revisioning of the relationship between black feminism and nationalism."
The Journal of American History "This unique study opens up fascinating new areas of discussion in feminism, literary studies, and political history. Highly recommended."
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Against the Current "A powerful revisioning of the relationship between black feminism and nationalism."
The Journal of American History "This unique study opens up fascinating new areas of discussion in feminism, literary studies, and political history. Highly recommended."
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