Contemporary urban spaces are critical sites of resistance for black women. By focusing on the spatial aspects of political resistance of black women in Newark, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities.

Framing Black Women's Politics: Spatializing Intersectionality, Spatializing Resistance Politics Out of Place: Black Women, Racialization, and Urban Resistance  Historicizing Resistance: The Makings of a Marginal Community in the Central Ward  The Politics of Homemaking: Black Feminist Transformations of a Cityscape Mobilizing after Murder: The Politics of the Life and Death of Sakia Gunn  Keepin' Up the Fight: Black Feminism and the Hip Hop Convention Movement Social Capital, Political Space, and the Limits of Blackness