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Title: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James ISBN: 0-312-29449-2 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: An Excellent and Painful Book to Read
Comment: Joy James has done an excellent job at analyzing the sad situation of black and multiracial women of African Ancestry not only in America, but throughout the world. Black and brown women have always been on the forefront of changing the status quo. Joy came from a long tradition of black and multiracial feminists such as Ida B. Wells, Paula Giddings, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and C. Delores Tucker.

The situation of black, brown, and tan women are getting worse with rollbacks in civil rights gains, a virulent backlash against feminism, rhetoric aiming at poor people of color, especially women and children, the exporting of jobs from America to the Third World, and the burgeoning prison-industrial complex. Black and Latina women are the fastest growing segment of America's prison population due to the war on drugs and welfare reform and are abused by prison guards of all races Black and multiracial women of African ancestry have long been maglined by all groups of people: misogynist white and black men, racist white women, and nonblack, nonwhite people of both genders who want to distance themselves from blacks, especially black women.

I really liked the section in which she critique Hollywoood for its negative portrayal of black and multiracial womanhood. Hollywood likes to put out negative sterotypes of black women so that Americans, especially white Americans can be vindicated as morally righteous. Especially with its portrayal of interracial relationships between white men and black women, they often mess it up. Rather than breaking racist norms, death(Bulworth, Down to Earth), abandonment(the Bodyguard), exposure of the woman's true race or gender(Imitation of Life, the Crying Game) dooms the relationship.

This is an excellent book. I would recommend it to anyone who is concerned about the plight of black and brown women in America.

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