Race and discomposure in oral histories with white feminist activistsThomlinson, N. (2014) Race and discomposure in oral histories with white feminist activists. Oral History, 42 (1). pp. 84-94. ISSN 0143-0955 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. Official URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24342962 Abstract/SummaryThis article arises from my research on ethnicity and race in the English women's movement post-1968. Oral history interviews with both white and ethnic minority feminists from this period revealed the complexity of these debates and the emotions they generated. I begin this article with a discussion of the dynamics that race brought to these interviews and of the concepts of composure, discomposure and politicisation. I then examine the oral tes timony of four white feminist activists. Exploring these oral histories offers, I suggest, useful insight as to how discomposure can work to effect politicisation; and conversely, how com posure can be a symptom of a lack of political engagement.
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