{"product_id":"9783032160119","title":"Black Feminist Politics: From the Voting Rights Act to the Kamala Harris Vice Presidency (1965–2025)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBlack Feminist Politics: From the Voting Rights Act to the Kamala Harris Vice Presidency (1965–2025)\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHarris, Duchess\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades. This book begins with 1965—a pivotal year in which the Voting Rights Act fundamentally transformed political participation for African Americans and, notably, the year Kamala Harris was born. This temporal convergence serves as the book’s organizing framework, illustrating how the expansion of voting rights and the evolution of Black feminist politics created the conditions that made Harris’s Vice Presidency possible. Drawing on political science, history, gender studies, and Black feminist theory, the chapters trace major developments in U.S. political life from 1965 to 2025. Topics include the interventions of Michelle Wallace, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker, as well as the implications of the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill hearings for understanding gendered political vulnerability. The analysis also engages the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, showing how contemporary movements—including Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the resistance to book bans—extend a longer tradition of Black feminist political critique. The text foregrounds key analytical concepts such as linked fate and Black feminist epistemology, making it an essential resource for scholars and students of American politics, African American studies, and feminist theory. By situating Kamala Harris’s Vice Presidency within a broader historical trajectory, the book demonstrates that Black feminist political behavior is indispensable to understanding the development of modern U.S. democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eWith each edition of \u003cem\u003eBlack Feminist Politics,\u003c\/em\u003e Duchess Harris solidifies its position as an essential and enduring text that affirms the vital importance of using a Black Feminist analysis to interpret US politics, society, and culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrystal M. Moten, author of \u003cem\u003eContinually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-09-11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032160119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45228884885644,"sku":"9783032160119","price":34.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032160119","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}