Published in 2020
288 pages
Brenna Bhandar is Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of Colonial Lives of Property, and she is co-editor of Plastic Materialities.
Rafeef Ziadah is an academic, poet and activist. She teaches Politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. She has worked as researcher and campaigns organiser with a number of grassroots Palestinian, refugee rights and anti-poverty campaigns.
What is this book about?
A unique book, tracing forty years of anti-racist feminist thought
Black, anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist thought is often sidelined in mainstream discourses that transform feminism into simplistic calculations of how many women are in positions of power. This unique book sets the record straight. Through interviews with key scholars, including Angela Y. Davis and Silvia Federici, Bhandar and Ziadah present a serious and thorough discussion of race, class, gender, and sexuality not merely as intersections to be noted or additives to be mixed in, but as co-constitutive factors that must be reckoned with if we are to build effective coalitions.
Collectively, these interviews trace the ways in which Black feminists, Third World and post-colonial feminists, and indigenous women have created new ways of seeing, new theoretical frameworks for analysing political problems, and new ways of relating to one another.
