Explores the formation and transformative possibilities of trans-racial feminist alliances. This work investigates when and under what conditions trans-racial feminist alliances in academia work, why they fail, and how close attention to their formation provides the theoretical and political ground for a collective vision of subjectivity.
“For twenty years, those of us who came of age through multiracial feminism and teach feminist studies have been talking about alliance building as key to liberation struggles. Yet time and again, I have heard students understandably ask what alliances look like, how they can be part of them, and how they will know whether the alliances are working. With theory that is both nuanced and sophisticated, relevant and provocative, Aimee Carrillo Rowe gives us answers to these questions.”—
Becky Thompson, author of A
Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist ActivismAimee Carrillo Rowe is Associate Professor in the Rhetoric Department and the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry program at the University of Iowa.