A Black Feminist Statement
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1977
- Form
- Political theory
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 12 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendHow We Get Free, Black Feminism and the Combahee River CollectiveHaymarket Books, 2017Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's edition prints the statement with interviews with its authors on its making and legacy.
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A short manifesto written in 1977 by a group of Black lesbian feminists in Boston, principally Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith and Demita Frazier, and named for Harriet Tubman's 1863 raid. It describes the genesis of contemporary Black feminism, defines the group's politics as a struggle against racial, sexual, heterosexual and class oppression understood as interlocking systems, argues that Black women's liberation would require the destruction of all of them, and discusses the problems of organising and the group's projects. It introduced the term identity politics.
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