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xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Born in Flames -- Front Porch Strategy -- Doing the Work -- We Spoke Our Truths -- Working with Fire -- The Grounds -- Forward Ever. |
| Summary |
"For 35 years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers rights. In 2012, shortly after one of their biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed their headquarters. Fire Dreams is an innovative collaboration between WWAV and Laura McTighe, who work in community to build a social movement ethnography of the organization's post-arson rebirth. Rooting WWAV in the geography of the South and the living history of generations of Black feminist thinkers, McTighe and WWAV weave together stories from their founders' pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with other movements for liberation around the globe. Together, they refuse the logics of racial capitalism and share WWAV's own world-building knowledges as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana)
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African American feminists -- Southern States.
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Women social reformers -- Southern States.
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Social problems -- Southern States.
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African American women political activists -- Southern States.
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Womanism -- Southern States.
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Feminism -- Southern States.
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Racism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Haywood, Deon, writer of foreword.
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Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana), author.
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Making Black feminist liberation in the South |
| ISBN |
9781478025542 paperback : $29.95 |
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1478025549 paperback |
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9781478020806 hardcover |
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1478020806 hardcover |
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