Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around : Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith
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| Title: | Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around : Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith |
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| Description: | Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.Silver Winner, 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category 2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction presented by the Publishing Triangle As an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist, and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social justice movements, including Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism. Her four decades of grassroots activism forged collaborations that introduced the idea that oppression must be fought on a variety of fronts simultaneously, including gender, race, class, and sexuality. By combining hard-to-find historical documents with new unpublished interviews with fellow activists, this book uncovers the deep roots of today's'identity politics'and'intersectionality'and serves as an essential primer for practicing solidarity and resistance. |
| Authors: | Barbara Smith, Alethia Jones, Virginia Eubanks |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Civil rights workers--United States, Civil rights movements--United States |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.Silver Winner, 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category 2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction presented by the Publishing Triangle As an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist, and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social justice movements, including Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism. Her four decades of grassroots activism forged collaborations that introduced the idea that oppression must be fought on a variety of fronts simultaneously, including gender, race, class, and sexuality. By combining hard-to-find historical documents with new unpublished interviews with fellow activists, this book uncovers the deep roots of today's'identity politics'and'intersectionality'and serves as an essential primer for practicing solidarity and resistance. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438451145 9781438451152 9781438451169 |
