Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom

Denise Noble is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. She previously spent six years teaching in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. She has also taught social work, media and cultural studies at several London universities.

• Introduction: Decolonising and Feminising Freedom.- Part I. Narratives of Black Britishness and Black Womanhood.- Chapter 1. Turning History Upside Down.- Chapter 2. The Old and New Ethnicities of Postcolonial Black Britishness.- Chapter 3. Standing in the Bigness of who I am’: Independent Women and the Paradoxes of Freedom.- Part II. Colonial Liberalism and Black Freedom.- Chapter 4. Two Reports, One Empire: Race and Gender in British Post-War Social Welfare Discourse.- Chapter 5. Discrepant Women and Imperial Patriarchies.- Part III. Neoliberalism's Postcolonial Liberties.- Chapter 6. Beyond Racial Trauma: Remembering Bodies, Healing the Self.- Chapter 7. Taking Liberties with Neoliberalism:  Compliance and Refusal.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Rebellious Histories and the Postcolonial Problem of Freedom.