![]() ![]() ![]() Numerous Black feminist theorists have advanced the view that Black women’s experience as women is indivisible from their experiences as African Americans. Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression. The analytical and methodological insights of Black feminist theory have contributed profoundly to current thinking about women’s condition. ![]() In fact, much can be traced to activists in groups including the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Third World Women’s Alliance, and the Combahee River Collective. The idea that race, class and gender are interrelated dynamics of power and oppression has gained sufficient currency in the academic world to go by the shorthand “intersectionality,” or “intersection theory.” But the origins of contemporary Black feminist theory are not sufficiently known or acknowledged, and, given the invaluable work of university-based theorists, too many assume that the core concepts of Black feminism were born in the academy. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |