Tracy Fisher: "Rethinking Blackness, Feminisms, and Transracial Solidarities"
African American & Africana Studies Social Science Speaker Series.
Tracy Fisher is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Her teaching, research, and activist-scholar commitments are situated at the intersections of Women’s, Gender and Feminist studies, critical Race and Ethnic studies, African Diaspora studies, and critical Anthropology. She has published several articles in edited volumes and in journals such as, Small Axe, Social Justice, and Critical Sociology. She has also received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Professor Fisher is the co-editor of Gendered Citizenships, Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). Her book, What’s Left of Blackness: Feminisms, Transracial Solidarities, and the Politics of Belonging in Britain, was published in the Comparative Feminist Studies Series by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers in 2012.
Fisher explores 1970s Britain by specifically drawing attention to the ways in which black women in Britain understood their experiences, identities, and social activism in relation to other black women throughout the African diaspora and to other women of color within and outside of Britain. By extension, black women created new solidarities and engaged in an active political struggle—one grounded in the material reality of entrenched forms of discrimination and exclusion.
Co-sponsored by AAAS and Anthropology
