{"title":"Black Consciousness women’s organizing intimacies and the coldness of European anti-apartheid solidarity","authors":"Amanda Joyce Hall","doi":"10.1080/23802014.2022.2161617","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mmagauta Molefe and Oshadi Mangena internationalised Black Consciousness womanism and leveraged a gendered critique against the anti-apartheid movements in Europe. This article shows that the contradiction between intimacy and coldness offers a lens through which we can understand both the goals of anti-apartheid as a type of anti-colonial organising, as well as the limits of narrow anti-apartheid solidarities driven by European organisers. Mangena and Molefe challenged white women’s racism and paternalism within European campaigns, and demonstrated how international solidarity sometimes amplified divisions between liberation groups.","PeriodicalId":398229,"journal":{"name":"Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2022.2161617","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Mmagauta Molefe and Oshadi Mangena internationalised Black Consciousness womanism and leveraged a gendered critique against the anti-apartheid movements in Europe. This article shows that the contradiction between intimacy and coldness offers a lens through which we can understand both the goals of anti-apartheid as a type of anti-colonial organising, as well as the limits of narrow anti-apartheid solidarities driven by European organisers. Mangena and Molefe challenged white women’s racism and paternalism within European campaigns, and demonstrated how international solidarity sometimes amplified divisions between liberation groups.