Racialized women and girls often feel racial injustice before they
have the words to name it. Sometimes they fight these feelings, and
sometimes they use these feelings to fight. In this important and
revealing book, Gulzar Charania puts the experiences of women of
colour at the centre of her investigation, sharing how they endure
everyday racism, as well as its lasting impacts and exacting costs in
their lives and educational trajectories. Fighting Feelings highlights
how the elasticity of white supremacy invites people of colour to be
its accomplices, how interlocking forms of oppression force racialized
queer women to calibrate the risk of expressing their sexuality, and
how schools and the nation inform the development of racial literacy.
Charania traces the complex convergences, and inseparability, of race,
class, gender, and sexuality in women’s lives, and the divergent
political horizons that racism fosters. Told through a clear analytic
lens, Fighting Feelings articulates racism as a structure, and
explores the myriad ways it shapes the lives and political formation
of women of colour. Charania’s analysis of the complexity of racism
makes this book a critical and necessary contribution to our
understanding of how white supremacy operates.
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Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780774869010
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
University of British Columbia Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter