Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

Book info: Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (Paperback, 208 pages) – Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Language: English.

Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically, and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color. Editorial Reviews Review “A diverse collection of interdisciplinary voices that eloquently testifies to the ongoing historical and transnational resistance waged by women of color around the world against the many and varied forces that oppress them.” ―Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism About the Author Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, Nelson Mandela, visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, and Writer-in-Residence at Birkbeck School of Law. His most recent book is What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015).

Renée T. White is the Provost, Executive Vice President, and Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Dr. White is the editor of four books, including the co-edited Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness (2021) and the acclaimed Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (Bloomsbury 1997). She is the author of Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS (Bloomsbury, 2000). Dr. White has served as editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth and as editorial advisor to the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services.