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Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom

A Caribbean Genealogy

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Denise Noble

    1. Department of Sociology and Criminology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

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  • Makes an important contribution to studies of Black women’s history and identity in Britain
  • Exposes the anxieties that lie beneath British multiculturalism
  • Deconstructs freedom and gender in a postcolonial world

Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 1-13

  3. Turning History Upside Down

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 15-50

  4. The Old and New Ethnicities of Postcolonial Black (British)ness

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 51-98

  5. ‘Standing in the Bigness of Who I Am’: Black Caribbean Women and the Paradoxes of Freedom

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 99-156

  6. Two Reports, One Empire: Race and Gender in British Post-War Social Welfare Discourse

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 157-184

  7. Discrepant Women, Imperial Patriarchies and (De)Colonizing Masculinities

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 185-228

  8. Beyond Racial Trauma: Remembering Bodies, Healing the Self

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 229-274

  9. Taking Liberties with Neoliberalism: Compliance and Refusal

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 275-316

  10. Conclusion: Rebellious Histories

    • Denise Noble
    Pages 317-348

  11. Correction to: Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom

    • Denise Noble
    Pages C1-C1

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 349-362
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About this book

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.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Criminology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Denise Noble

About the author

Denise Noble is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. She previously spent six years teaching in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. She has also taught social work, media and cultural studies at several London universities. 

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