Description: In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of 'war, ' experienced daily by women of color.
Brief description: Renée T. White is the Provost, Executive Vice President, and Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Dr. White is the editor of four books, including the co-edited Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness (2021) and the acclaimed Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (Bloomsbury 1997). She is the author of Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS (Bloomsbury, 2000). Dr. White has served as editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth and as editorial advisor to the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services.
Review Quotes: "A diverse collection of interdisciplinary voices that eloquently testifies to the ongoing historical and transnational resistance waged by women of color around the world against the many and varied forces that oppress them." --Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism