Hello and thanks forthwritten for creating this community!
I'm a second year part-time PhD student, based in London, UK. I'm researching the kind of narratives which contemporary white feminists in Britain are producing about the recent feminist past (from the 70s onwards), with a particular focus on issues of race and racism. Currently I'm analysing a whole bunch of texts (activist, mainstream and academic) but at some point i will be starting to do interviews as well. My interest in this topic came from knowing that there's a whole load of histories of black feminist and anti-racist organising and theorising in Britain which keeps being written out of the constantly regurgitated standard narrative of British feminism. The telling of history is always political - so narratives of the feminist past which privilege whiteness continue the process of marginalisation and racism within contemporary feminist communities and theorising... Anger and frustration at the racism and white privilege within white-dominated feminist communities & a belief in the absolute importance of history is what led me down this road to begin with.
Hope that makes some sense - I seem to get more and more confused about how to describe my project the further i come along. Does anyone else get that?
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Date: 2010-07-24 06:53 pm (UTC)I'm a second year part-time PhD student, based in London, UK. I'm researching the kind of narratives which contemporary white feminists in Britain are producing about the recent feminist past (from the 70s onwards), with a particular focus on issues of race and racism. Currently I'm analysing a whole bunch of texts (activist, mainstream and academic) but at some point i will be starting to do interviews as well. My interest in this topic came from knowing that there's a whole load of histories of black feminist and anti-racist organising and theorising in Britain which keeps being written out of the constantly regurgitated standard narrative of British feminism. The telling of history is always political - so narratives of the feminist past which privilege whiteness continue the process of marginalisation and racism within contemporary feminist communities and theorising... Anger and frustration at the racism and white privilege within white-dominated feminist communities & a belief in the absolute importance of history is what led me down this road to begin with.
Hope that makes some sense - I seem to get more and more confused about how to describe my project the further i come along. Does anyone else get that?