Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organisations and the Politics of Transformation'Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black and Asian communities. The book breaks new ground by: * destroying the misconception that black and Asian women lack political involvement * integrating gender into the study of black and Asian political participation in Britain |
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
towards a womanist methodology | 23 |
redefining political activism | 51 |
Chapter 4 Talking across difference | 95 |
Chapter 5 Articulating race class and gender | 145 |
Chapter 6 Sisters and brothers in struggle? Looking for coalitions | 179 |
from identity politics to the politics of transformation | 227 |
Appendix I Summary of case study organisations | 241 |
Appendix II Chronology of black women organising autonomously in Britain | 247 |
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