Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take an active role, as she is doing, to help make their world a better place.
Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take an active role, as she is doing, to help make th...
In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. From this marginal place, white feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an acknowledged intellectual space, identified as feminist anthropology. Unfortunately, the works of black and non-western feminist anthropologists are rarely cited, and they have yet to be respected as significant shapers of the direction and transformation of feminist anthropology. In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first...
In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field'...
The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is Beverly Guy-Sheftall s comprehensive collection of writings, in the feminist tradition, of more than sixty African American women. From the pioneering work of abolitionist Maria Miller Stewart and anti-lynching crusader Ida Wells-Barnett to the writings of contemporary feminist critics Michele Wallace and bell hooks, black women have been writing about the multiple jeopardies racism, sexism, and classicm that have made it...
The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words o...
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice. Lorde embraced difference, and at each turn she emphasized the importance of using it to build shared strength among marginalized communities. I Am Your...
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches ...
