Fire dreams : making Black feminist liberation in the South
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Haywood, Deon, writer of foreword.
Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana), author.
Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana), author.
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
ISBN
9781478025542, 1478025549, 9781478020806, 1478020806
Physical Desc
xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Norwood - New Books | 305.42 McTighe | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781478025542, 1478025549, 9781478020806, 1478020806
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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.
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American feminists -- Southern States.
African American women political activists -- Southern States.
Feminism -- Southern States.
Racism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Social problems -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Womanism -- Southern States.
Women social reformers -- Southern States.
Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana)
African American women political activists -- Southern States.
Feminism -- Southern States.
Racism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Social problems -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Womanism -- Southern States.
Women social reformers -- Southern States.
Women With A Vision (Non-profit organization : New Orleans, Louisiana)
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McTighe, L., & Haywood, D. (2024). Fire dreams: making Black feminist liberation in the South . Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McTighe, Laura, 1978- and Deon, Haywood. 2024. Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South. Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McTighe, Laura, 1978- and Deon, Haywood. Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South Duke University Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McTighe, Laura, and Deon Haywood. Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South Duke University Press, 2024.
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