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Product Identifiers

PublisherPluto Press

ISBN-100745339484

ISBN-139780745339481

eBay Product ID (ePID)5038716261

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTo Exist Is to Resist : Black Feminism in Europe

Publication Year2019

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women in Politics, Women's Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorAkwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

FormatLibrary Binding

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-394765

Reviews'Centring the Black experience in Europe is a bold and empowering act. This anthology offers crucial insights into what it means to navigate this region as a black female body. I truly welcome the publication of this book.', 'To read this book is to fully engage in an understanding of Black Feminism and Afrofeminism praxis. It is to discover the plurality of experiences, so that a political sisterhood and a global liberation can be born'

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.4/8896

Table Of ContentList of FiguresPart I: Introduction1. Introduction: On the Problems and Possibilities of European Black Feminism and Afrofeminism - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca SobandePart II: Resistance, Solidarity and Coalition-Building2. The Collective Mobilisation of African Women in Athens 'United We Stand' - Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi3. Making Space: Black and Womxn of Colour Feminist Activism in Madrid - Nadia Nadesan4. Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France - Mwasi Collectif5. Afro Women's Activism in Belgium: Questioning Diversity and Solidarity - Nicole Grégoire and Modi Ntambwe6. A Black Feminist's Guide to Improper Activism - Claire Heuchan Part III: Emotions, Affect and Intimate Relations7. Revisiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance - Gabriella Beckles-Raymond8. Uses of Black/African Literature and Afrofeminist Literary Spaces by Women of Colour in French-Speaking Switzerland - Pamela Ohene-Nyako 9. 'Blackness Disrupts My Germanness': On Embodiment and Questions of Identity and Belonging among Women of Colour in Germany - Johanna Melissa Lukate10. Love and Affection: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship Between Women of Colour - Ego Ahaiwe Sowinske and Nazmia Jamal11. Black Pete, Black Motherhood and Womanist Ethics - Lubumbe Van de Velde12. Warriors and Survivors: The Eartha Kitt Files - Alecia McKenziePart IV: Surviving the Academy13. In the Changing Light; Daring to Be Powerful - Yesim Deveci14. Cruel Ironies: The Afterlife of Black Womxn's Intervention - Cruel Ironies Collective 15. Creating a Space within the German Academy - Melody Howse16. A Manifesto for Survival - Sadiah Qureshi17. At the Margin of Institutional Whiteness: Black Women in Danish Academia - Oda-Kange Midtvage Diallo18. Africanist Sista-hood in Britain: Creating Our Own Pathways - Chijioke ObasiPart V: Digital and Creative Labour 19. But Some of Us Are Tired: Black Women's 'Personal Feminist Essays' in the Digital Sphere - Kesiena Boom20. Coming to Movement: African Diasporic Women in British Dance - Tia-Monique Uzor21. Through Our Lens: Filming Our Resistance. Does the Future Look Black in Europe? - Dorett Jones22. When We Heal: Creative Practice as a Means of Activism and Self-Preservation - Stacie CC GrahamNotes on ContributorsIndex

SynopsisIn a divided continent, Black women and women of colour come together to undertake creative resistances and imagine radical new futures., This book brings together activists, artists, and scholars of color to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and exploring the ways in which they organize and mobilize to imagine a Black feminist Europe. Deeply aware that they are constructed as "others" living in a racialized and hierarchical continent, the contributors explore gender, class, sexuality, and legal status to show that they are both invisible--presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies--and hyper-visible, assumed to be passive and sexualized, angry and irrational. In imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships, activism and community, and literature, dance, and film., This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe. Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the contibutors explore gender, class, sexuality and legal status to show that they are both invisible - presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies - and hyper-visible - assumed to be passive and sexualised, angry and irrational. Through imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships, activism and community, and literature, dance and film.

LC Classification NumberHQ1236.5