Wednesday, 22 February 2012

black feminism

Black feminism argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are
inextricably bound together.[1] Forms of
feminism that strive to overcome sexism and class oppression. The Combahee River
Collective
argued in 1974 that the liberation of black women entails freedom
for all people, since it would require the end of racism, sexism, and class
oppression.[2] One of
the theories that evolved out of this movement was Alice Walker's Womanism.Alice
Walker and other womanists pointed out that black women experienced a different
and more intense kind of oppression from that of white women. They point to the
emergence black feminism after earlier movements led by white middle-class women
which they regard as having largely ignored oppression based on race and class

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