Black Women

Standpoint Theory - Feminist Standpoint Theories - Black Feminist Standpoint Theories
... Black feminist thought is a collection of ideas, writings, and art that articulates a standpoint of and for black women of the African Diaspora ... Black feminist thought describes black women as a unique group that exists in a "place" in US social relations where intersectional processes of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual ... Black feminist thought is grounded in black women's historical experience with enslavement, anti-lynching movements, segregation, Civil Rights and Black Power movements, sexual ...

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black And Female
... Double Jeopardy To Be Black and Female is a pamphlet which was written by Frances M ... The pamphlet was later revised and then published in The Black Woman, an anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara in 1970 ... troubles which come about when one tries to analyze the role of a black female in society ...

Combahee River Collective - Other Political Work
... of a predominantly white feminist movement, and a Black nationalist vision of women deferring to Black male leadership." She notes that, in addition to penning the statement, "collective members ... based on the notion that (the women) were alleged to be prostitutes and therefore not worthy of protection or investigation." "That winter and spring were a ... The Black feminist political analysis and practice the Combahee River Collective had developed since 1974 enabled us to grasp both the sexual-political and racial-political ...

Marriage Squeeze - History
... American men marry non-African Americans at a higher rate than do African American women ... According to Newsweek, 43% of African American women between the ages of 30 and 34 have never been married ... men who married African American women were heavily subjected in the past ...

Beverly Smith - Selected Works - Anthologies
... The Wedding, from Home Girls A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983, ed ... Barbara Smith Kitchen Table Women of Color Press Combahee River Collective Statement, authored with Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier Smith, Barbara Beverly ... from This Bridge Called My Back Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds ...