Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom
A Caribbean Genealogy
Authors: Noble, Denise
Free Preview- Makes an important contribution to studies of Black women’s history and identity in Britain
- Exposes the anxieties that lie beneath British multiculturalism
- Deconstructs freedom and gender in a postcolonial world
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- About this book
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This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom. It argues that in seeking to escape liberalism’s gendered and racialised governmentalities, Black women’s everyday self-making practices construct decolonising and feminising epistemologies of freedom. These, in turn, repeatedly interrogate the colonial logics of liberalism and Britishness. Genealogically structured, the book begins with the narratives of freedom and identity presented by Black British Caribbean women. It then analyses critical moments of crisis in British racial rule at home and abroad in which gender and Caribbean women figure as points of concern. Post-war Caribbean immigration to the UK, decolonisation of the British Caribbean and the post-emancipation reconstruction of the British Caribbean loom large in these considerations. In doing all of this, the author unravels the colonial legacies that continue to underwrite contemporary British multicultural anxieties. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of social and cultural history, politics, feminism, race and postcoloniality.
- About the authors
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Denise Noble is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. She previously spent six years teaching in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. She has also taught social work, media and cultural studies at several London universities.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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Turning History Upside Down
Pages 15-50
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The Old and New Ethnicities of Postcolonial Black (British)ness
Pages 51-98
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‘Standing in the Bigness of Who I Am’: Black Caribbean Women and the Paradoxes of Freedom
Pages 99-156
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Two Reports, One Empire: Race and Gender in British Post-War Social Welfare Discourse
Pages 157-184
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom
- Book Subtitle
- A Caribbean Genealogy
- Authors
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- Denise Noble
- Series Title
- Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-44951-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-44951-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-44950-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-68643-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 362
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