ABSTRACT
A first generation, non-elite HBCU-educated, working-class African American female born in Saint Louis and raised in Long Beach, the presence of Zenzele Isoke's work in libraries of the varied and esteemed institutions was a singular representation of her contribution, albeit small, to the world of scholarly discourse. This affirmation was important because Isoke strove to write Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance on her own terms and not those of a discipline whose "methods" have largely silenced the voices and made invisible the agency of Black women. Isoke use the broader conceptual paradigm of intersectionality to tell the stories of Black political women of Newark, and to give other Black girl scholars who find themselves in university libraries the faith and hope that they could do the same, and even better. Her treatment of intersectional politics specifically includes space and place as axes of power and identity that inform Black female political subjectivity.
