Feminism and Race brings together a wide range of writings on 'race', racism, and feminism that have been published in the past two decades. It aims to provide readers with an overview of the history of these debates as well as to suggest future directions for feminist scholarship and practice in this field.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION ; THE BASIS FOR THE DEBATES ; Challenging Imperial Feminism ; Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory ; Angry Women are Building ; Preface: Black Women in White America ; Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist ; Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought ; The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House ; La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness ; ENGAGING THE DEBATES ; 'Race', Gender, and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought ; Moving the Mountains, Making the Links ; The Persistence of Vision ; Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions ; 'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism ; The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought ; The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Research Process ; 'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something'. African-American Women's Historical Novels ; The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies ; U.S. Third World Feminism and Oppositional Consciousness ; Decolonising Feminism ; SHIFTING THE DEBATES ; Black Women's Employment and the British Economy ; Women, Migration, and the State ; People or Population ; Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran ; Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment ; Black (w)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality ; 'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism ; Environmental Action, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience ; Difference, Diversity, Differentiation ; Crosscurrents, Crosstalk ; Genealogies, Legacies, Movements ; Exploding the Canon ; INDEX

Part of Successful Oxford Readings in Feminism series Brings together 33 of the key articles in the discipline, organised in three progressional subject areas Covers a number of disciplines including history, literary analysis, sociology and psychology and has an international outlook Topical subject Articles in the volume are by leading feminist writers, including Audre Lorde, bell hooks, M. Jacqui Alexander Kum-Kum Bhavnani is a distinguished scholar in this field

Part of Successful Oxford Readings in Feminism series Brings together 33 of the key articles in the discipline, organised in three progressional subject areas Covers a number of disciplines including history, literary analysis, sociology and psychology and has an international outlook Topical subject Articles in the volume are by leading feminist writers, including Audre Lorde, bell hooks, M. Jacqui Alexander Kum-Kum Bhavnani is a distinguished scholar in this field