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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-101478000597

ISBN-139781478000594

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038617830

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NameBlack Feminism Reimagined : after Intersectionality

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Higher, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education

AuthorJennifer C. Nash

SeriesNext Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-026166

Dewey Edition23

Reviews[This] book has created a moment in the academy that calls us to practice radical honesty. [Its] honesty about the affect and feelings that Black feminism-- and particularly intersectionality-- produce in the academy is a rare and refreshing break from the norms of bourgeois pretense and protocols of politesse., This is a book that generates messy feelings, that forges counterintuitive intimacies, that asks and answers difficult questions about a field that is still too often denied a brief-- at least in the US academy-- as a crucial site of intellectual motility, critical inquiry, and capacious knowledge production., Black Feminism Reimagined invites us to think about which sites of black feminism have been emphasized and which have been foreclosed in its multi-decade tarrying with the academy., Black Feminism Reimagined is an invitation to explore the radical openness of Black feminism and the diversity of its potential expressions., "What Nash does in Black Feminism Reimagined is new, brave, and important." -- Chelsea Johnson Women's Review of Books "This book brings charged feminist issues, anxieties, and negative affects to the surface for the field of women's studies to confront making for a challenging yet necessary read." -- Tiffany Lethabo King Feminist Formations "This is a book that generates messy feelings, that forges counterintuitive intimacies, that asks and answers difficult questions about a field that is still too often denied a brief-- at least in the US academy-- as a crucial site of intellectual motility, critical inquiry, and capacious knowledge production." -- Shoniqua Roach Syndicate " Black Feminism Reimagined is an invitation to explore the radical openness of Black feminism and the diversity of its potential expressions." -- James Bliss Syndicate "[This] book has created a moment in the academy that calls us to practice radical honesty. [Its] honesty about the affect and feelings that Black feminism-- and particularly intersectionality-- produce in the academy is a rare and refreshing break from the norms of bourgeois pretense and protocols of politesse." -- Tiffany King Syndicate " Black Feminism Reimagined invites us to think about which sites of black feminism have been emphasized and which have been foreclosed in its multi-decade tarrying with the academy." -- Amber Musser Syndicate "Nash provides an important new examination of intersectionality and Black feminism, one that will shape women's studies and feminist theory well into the future. Challenging yet enlightening, this book is sharp and nuanced and necessary. It's your end-of-year #RequiredReading." -- Karla Strand Ms., Nash provides an important new examination of intersectionality and Black feminism, one that will shape women's studies and feminist theory well into the future. Challenging yet enlightening, this book is sharp and nuanced and necessary. It's your end-of-year #RequiredReading., This book brings charged feminist issues, anxieties, and negative affects to the surface for the field of women's studies to confront making for a challenging yet necessary read.

Dewey Decimal305.420973

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Feeling Black Feminism 1 1. A Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars 33 2. The Politics of Reading 59 3. Surrender 81 4. Love in the Time of Death 111 Coda: Some of Us are Tired 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 157 Index 165

SynopsisIn Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect-defensiveness-manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities., Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of the concept in order to better unleash black feminist theory's visionary and world-making possibilities., In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect--defensiveness--manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

LC Classification NumberHQ1197