Decolonizing and feminizing freedom : a Caribbean genealogy /

Decolonizing and feminizing freedom : a Caribbean genealogy /

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Author / Creator:Noble, Denise, author.
Imprint:London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (xii, 365 pages)
Language:English
Series:Thinking gender in transnational times
Thinking gender in transnational times.
Subject:
Women -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions.
Women, Black -- Caribbean Area.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women, Black.
Caribbean Area.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562395
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ISBN:9781137449511
1137449519
9781137449504
1137449500
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed June 2, 2017).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: 1137449500 9781137449504
Standard no.:10.1057/978-1-137-44951-1.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Introduction: Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom; Black Like Who?; References; 2: Turning History Upside Down; (De)colonizing in Reverse; The Coloniality of Postcolonial Britain; Discourse, Power, Identity; Feminization and the Coloniality of Gender; Governmentality; Genealogy; Racialized Modernityś Contested Temporalities; Visitor Theory; References; 3: The Old and New Ethnicities of Postcolonial Black (British)ness; British Black: `What Is Your Ethnic Group?-Choose One;́ British Caribbean; A Different Kind of Black A Safe Black?; Africa: (Dis)Continuities.
  • The Poetics and Temporalities of Black British IdentitiesReferences; 4: `Standing in the Bigness of Who I Am:́ Black Caribbean Women and the Paradoxes of Freedom; Questioning Freedom; Defining the Independent Black Woman; Tradition, Habit or Necessity?; Critiques of the Independent Black Woman; Independence and Black Masculinity; Poor Boys and the Marginalized Black Man; References; 5: Two Reports, One Empire: Race and Gender in British Post-War Social Welfare Discourse; The Moyne Report: Women, Labour and Constitutional Decolonization in the British Caribbean.
  • Gender and Post-War Racial SettlementReferences; 6: Discrepant Women, Imperial Patriarchies and (De)Colonizing Masculinities; The Racial Taxonomies of Freedom; Colonial Liberalism versus the `Effeminate ́Aristocracy of the Planter Class; Freedomś Apprentices: Amelioration, Acculturation and the Family of Man; Colonial Patriarchy and the `Intimacies ́of Racial Governmentality; Colonizing Freedom: Slaves, Contracted Persons and Equal Rights; References; 7: Beyond Racial Trauma: Remembering Bodies, Healing the Self; Afrocentrism and the Khamitic Nu(bian) Woman.
  • The Sacred Woman Programme: Liberating the Black WomanThe Sacred Gateways to Self-Knowledge; Gateway 0: Sacred Womb; Gateway 1: Sacred Words; Gateway 2: Sacred Food; Gateway 3: Sacred Movement; Gateway 4: Sacred Beauty; Gateway 5: Sacred Space; Gateway 6: Sacred Healing; Gateway 7: Sacred Relationships; Gateway 8: Sacred Union; Gateway 9: The Sacred Initiation; Bearing Slavery, Feminizing Freedom; Khamitic Ethnobiology: Melanin, Trauma and the Biopolitics of Remembering Bodies; `Natural ́Bodies in Unnatural Places; Colonial Biohistories and Transnational Landscapes of Memory; References.
  • 8: Taking Liberties with Neoliberalism: Compliance and RefusalBlack-Britainś `New Femininities;́ Neoliberal Globalization and the Politics of Location; Jamaica: Dancehall and the Postcolonial Nation; `Wheel and Come Again Rude Bwai!:́ Exiled Subjects and Diasporic (Dis)Identifications; References; 9: Conclusion: `Rebellious Histories: Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom;́ The Temporalities of British Liberalism; Black Britishness and the Postcolonial Problem of Neoliberal Freedom; What Can Black Women Know About Freedom?; References; Index.

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