Amrit Wilson (born 1941)[1] is a British-Indian[2] writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.[3] Her 1978 book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain[4] won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.[2] Her other book publications include Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006), and as a journalist she has been published in outlets including Ceasefire Magazine,[5] Media Diversified,[6] openDemocracy[7] and The Guardian.[8][9]
Background
Wilson grew up in India and came to Britain as a student in 1961. She became a freelance journalist in 1974, and was active as an anti-racist militant in the 1970s.[10] Wilson's book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain, first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later,[11] has been described as "[c]hallenging the views of South Asian women as weak, submissive, one-dimensional stereotypes" and as having "cleared the space for Asian women to speak for themselves".[12] Wilson was a founder member of Awaz, the UK's first Asian feminist collective, and was active in OWAAD, the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (1978–82).[3][13] She was formerly chair of Imkaan, a national network of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee women's refuges and services for women facing violence, and is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group.[7][14]
She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at Luton University,[15] and has carried an Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI).[16]
In April 2024, Wilson revealed that she had had her OCI card withdrawn by the Indian government and is unable to travel to India after having been accused of "anti-India activities" and "detrimental propaganda against India."[17]
Selected bibliography
- Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978; second edition Daraja Press, 2019, Template:ISBN)
- The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution (The Red Sea Press, 1991, Template:ISBN)
- Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006; Template:ISBN)
- The Threat of Liberation (Pluto Press, 2013; Template:ISBN)
References
- ↑ Amrit Wilson(1997).Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on. Media Diversified(17 January 2019).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 'Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work, Siddiqui, Sophia. gal-dem(30 October 2018).
- ↑ A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain. Race & Class({Template:Date).
- ↑ Amrit Wilson.
- ↑ Category: Amrit Wilson. Media Dversified(16 July 2015).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Amrit Wilson. Open Democracy(22 July 2020).
- ↑ Speaker bios. Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism.
- ↑ Amrit Wilson.
- ↑ Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(2002). ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7
- ↑ Event Report – 'Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'. Islamic Human Rights Commission(6 March 2019).
- ↑ Review – Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain, Goodfellow, Maya(8 June 2019).
- ↑ Amrit Wilson. British Library.
- ↑ Amrit Wilson. The Strike at Imperial Typewriters.
- ↑ Amrit Wilson. Pluto Press.
- ↑ Hearing adjourned in journalist's revision plea on cancelled OCI card. The Indian Express(2023-05-23). Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ↑ Solidarity With Amrit Wilson, Barnett, Marcus. Tribune(2024-04-26). Retrieved 2024-05-06.