GWS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Combahee River, Black Feminism
9 Feb 2018
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A collection of black feminists who have been meeting since 1974. They are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual and class oppression. As black women, we see black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face (p. 1) The author does a great job of mentioning well known famous/historic people to support her statements and arguments. Contemporary black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of personal sacrifice, militancy, and work by our mothers and sisters (p. Black women who do not identify themselves as feminist have all experienced sexual oppression as a constant factor in day-to-day existence. Uses the example of when being told to be quiet; (1) to seem ladylike and (2) to make us less objectionable to white people. We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently four our liberation are us .
