Ebook: Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around: forty years of movement building with Barbara Smith

Chronicling an activist life -- Home grown : early roots of activism -- Building Black feminism -- Building Black women's studies -- Building Kitchen Table Press -- Building multi-issue movements -- Building progressive urban politics -- "Took Root, Bore Fruit" : legacies and futures of a Black feminist life.;"'Not a memoir, a biography, nor a reader. It is a reflection and a conversation. It is also a montage of forty years of documents, interviews and articles that provide useful lessons for social justice work' ... As an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social justice movements, including Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism. Her four decades of grassroots activism forged collaborations that introduced the idea that oppression must be fought on a variety of fronts simultaneously, including gender, race, class and sexuality. By combining ... historical documents with new unpublished interviews with fellow activists, this book uncovers the deep roots of today's 'identity politics' and 'intersectionality' and serves as an essential primer for practising solidarity and resistance"--Publisher's description.