Full Description
Reflections from a life lived in the struggle by black British feminist and activist, Stella Dadzie. Stella Dadzie has been a key figure in the Black women's movement in Britain since the 1970s. This unique new collection showcases her creative, personal and political writings, covering themes from her family life and early years to political activism, travel in Africa and the
Caribbean, and race and racism in Britain. Featuring short stories, poems, speeches and travel writings, in addition to personal photographs and a curated selection of her artwork in a photo spread at its centre, this definitive collection presents Dadzie as she has never been seen before: raw, funny and human, both artist and activist, it offers new insights into the issues that defined a generation of black women. This is the fifth book in Lawrence Wishart's Radical Black Women Series, in partership with the Black Cultural Archives.
Contents
Introduction
Body Blues
The Nurse
Angry Black Women
- A Black Feminist Perspective on Mental Health and the NHS
Hairvolution
Rasta Cornroll
Salon
Reflections/1
Body Blues
Crossing
Oceans
Breakfast in
Abelenkpe
Anomabu
The Ship
Interview:
Telling Tales
Elmina
Why is Slavery
such a Taboo Subject?
Reflections/2
En Route to South
Africa
All-a-We
Echoes of
Empire
Shared Agenda
Some Thoughts
about Racism & Empire/ Adapted from the Foreword to Black People &
The British Empire by Peter Fryer
This Time it
Happened with Fire
After the Storm
Election fever
Rush-hour
Inner Visions
Voices
A Smile for the
Camera?
Half-caste
Sexual healing
Thank You
Touching the Face
of God
Reflections/3
Brush Strokes
Ancient Roots
Sisters Chant
Do You Remember?
The Black Women's
Movement
American Roulette
Two Sisters in Spetses
Who's Playing
Silly Games?
Reflections/4
Bajan Blessings
Women's Study
Camp, Slovenia
Peace
Haringey: Context
& Crucible
