Are all the women still white? : rethinking race, expanding feminisms /

What are the contributions of black women and women of color to intellectual traditions and social justice movements? How have they theorized and practiced intersectional and "political feminist stances" while prioritizing gender, race, sexuality, and/or class? How have black feminists and feminists of color vis-à-vis radical acts and consciousness movements challenged and reshaped ideologies regarding liberation, womanhood, and feminisms--in inclusive, pluralistic, transnational, and multiracial ways--to shift disciplines and notions of "woman" while simultaneously providing strategies, methods, theories, and grassroots practices to free not some but all women? Editor Hobson, along with contributors who are academics, cultural critics, artists, and activists, examines these and other timely, pressing issues regarding race and the state of feminisms in the 21st century. Provocatively, this book revisits and comments on racial justice, gender equality, and political feminisms since the groundbreaking monograph All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave (CH Jun'82), edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith. This new book clearly illumines the vibrant, radical, and transformative labor of women of color and black feminists against racist, sexist, classist, imperialist, and other oppressive dynamics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Trimiko C. Melancon, Loyola University