To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Akwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande

Pluto Press, 2019 - Ethnic studies - 310 pages

This book brings together activists, artists, and scholars of color to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and exploring the ways in which they organize and mobilize to imagine a Black feminist Europe.
Deeply aware that they are constructed as "others" living in a racialized and hierarchical continent, the contributors explore gender, class, sexuality, and legal status to show that they are both invisible--presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies--and hyper-visible, assumed to be passive and sexualized, angry and irrational.
In imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home, friendships and intimate relationships, activism and community, and literature, dance, and film.

About the author

Akwujo Emejulu is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Fugitive Feminism. Francesca Sobande is a lecturer in marketing and advertising at Edge Hill University and the author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain.

Bibliographic information

• Title: To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
• Editors: Akwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande
• Publisher: Pluto Press, 2019
• ISBN: 0745339484, 9780745339481
• Length: 310 pages