Suryia Nayak is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Salford, UK. She has 30 years’ experience of working in the Rape Crisis Movement, community engagement across a diverse range of peoples positioned as alienated using models of education as liberation, and the activism of Black feminism to raise consciousness about the psychological and political impact of oppressive social constructions.

‘Race, Gender and the Activism of Black Feminist Theory offers cutting-edge social theory that uses Audre Lorde’s pathbreaking writings as a foundation. The book contains sharp insights into how critical theorists have sidestepped Lorde's anger at the racism within white feminist writings and thus misunderstood much of her work. As a result, Nayak ensures that feminist political engagement occupies a central place, both in her critique and her wonderfully forward-looking theory. The book is a must-read for all feminists and women’s studies students!’ – Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• 1. Introduction: Race, Gender and Social Change 2. The Political Activism of Close Reading Practices 3. ‘Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface’: The Question of Black-Women-Only Services and Spaces 4. The Aporetics of Intersectionality 5. Conclusion: ‘Where Is the Love?’

Suryia Nayak is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Salford, UK. She has 30 years’ experience of working in the Rape Crisis Movement, community engagement across a diverse range of peoples positioned as alienated using models of education as liberation, and the activism of Black feminism to raise consciousness about the psychological and political impact of oppressive social constructions.

‘Race, Gender and the Activism of Black Feminist Theory offers cutting-edge social theory that uses Audre Lorde’s pathbreaking writings as a foundation. The book contains sharp insights into how critical theorists have sidestepped Lorde's anger at the racism within white feminist writings and thus misunderstood much of her work. As a result, Nayak ensures that feminist political engagement occupies a central place, both in her critique and her wonderfully forward-looking theory. The book is a must-read for all feminists and women’s studies students!’ – Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• 1. Introduction: Race, Gender and Social Change 2. The Political Activism of Close Reading Practices 3. ‘Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface’: The Question of Black-Women-Only Services and Spaces 4. The Aporetics of Intersectionality 5. Conclusion: ‘Where Is the Love?’

Suryia Nayak is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Salford, UK. She has 30 years’ experience of working in the Rape Crisis Movement, community engagement across a diverse range of peoples positioned as alienated using models of education as liberation, and the activism of Black feminism to raise consciousness about the psychological and political impact of oppressive social constructions.

‘Race, Gender and the Activism of Black Feminist Theory offers cutting-edge social theory that uses Audre Lorde’s pathbreaking writings as a foundation. The book contains sharp insights into how critical theorists have sidestepped Lorde's anger at the racism within white feminist writings and thus misunderstood much of her work. As a result, Nayak ensures that feminist political engagement occupies a central place, both in her critique and her wonderfully forward-looking theory. The book is a must-read for all feminists and women’s studies students!’ – Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• 1. Introduction: Race, Gender and Social Change 2. The Political Activism of Close Reading Practices 3. ‘Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface’: The Question of Black-Women-Only Services and Spaces 4. The Aporetics of Intersectionality 5. Conclusion: ‘Where Is the Love?’