Publisher's Synopsis
FILLS A MAJOR GAP: There is no other book on the market that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists from historical, contemporary, intersectional, and intergenerational perspectives. The online pieces that became the foundation for this anthology, published in the Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins, made a big splash, and we expect readers who found that series valuable - along with young people getting organized for the first time and people becoming newly politicized around their identities - to pick up the book and spread the word about it.
NETWORKED AUTHORS: The book comes out of a collaboration between Black Women Radicals, a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people's radical political activism, and Asian American Feminist Collective, a grassroots racial and gender justice group engaged in intersectional feminist politics grounded within diasporic communities. Both groups are hugely influential and connected, and will help with the launch of the book.
HIGH-PROFILE SUPPORT: The editors expect blurbs or other kinds of support from writers and organizers like Angela Y. Davis, Mariame Kaba, Barbara Smith, Mimi Kim, Roxane Gay, StaceyAnn Chin, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Alexander Chee, Dorothy Roberts, Jenna Wortham, Nicole Chung, and many many others.
COURSE ADOPTIONS: The book will have a long life in academic settings, appealing to professors interested in feminism and social movements as well as for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms in departments such as media and communication studies; political science; gender, sexuality and feminist studies; African American studies and Asian American studies.
