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Combahee River Collective Statement
By: Combahee River Collective Written by a collective of Black feminists who view Black feminism as a political movement to combat the oppression of all women of color. Their statement explains the genesis of contemporary Black feminism, their political beliefs, challenges faced while organizing Black feminists, and current Black feminist issues and practice. |
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A Black Women’s History of the United States (book)
By: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. |
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Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks This book shares Black women’s experiences to make sure they are not ignored or forgotten and discusses the importance of sisterhood in uplifting women. |
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All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave (book)
By: Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (editors) A series of essays on Black women’s joint fight against racism and misogyny by building sisterhood, creating resistance literature, dispelling harmful myths about Black women, and creating survival techniques. |
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An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! (essay)
By: Claudia Jones Black women are both symbols of and participants in the struggle for liberation, yet their experiences are often ignored. This article identifies the range of struggles targeting Black women, including economic challenges, labor, organizing, and white supremacy. |
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Black Civil Rights, Feminism, and Power
By: Donna Langston Liberal feminism was strongly influenced by the strategies and Civil Rights Movement. Similarly, radical feminism was shaped by the strategies and visions of the Black Power Movement. This article offers a comparative perspective of visions of feminist, civil rights, and power movements. |
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Black Women Often Ignored by Social Justice Movements
By: American Psychological Association Black women are often less likely to be associated with the concept of a “typical woman” and are viewed as more similar to Black men than to White women, which may lead to some antiracist and feminist movements failing to advocate for the rights of Black women, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. |
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Respect
Performed by: Aretha Franklin Released in 1967, the song became an anthem for Black people and Black women demanding respect. |
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“Womanist”
By: Alice Walker Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Copyright 1983. |
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What is Womanism?
By: Kat Blaque White feminism is a form of feminism that focuses on the struggles of white women while failing to address distinct forms of oppression faced by ethnic minority women and women lacking other privileges. Womanism is about loving and appreciating Black Women and critiquing the classist and racist aspects of white feminism. |
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Black Feminist Thought
By: Patricia Hill Collins: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. |
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot (book)
Author: Mikki Kendall Topics cover the lack of solidarity with white women, gun violence, hunger, patriarchy, eating disorders, murdered Black women, education, housing, reproductive justice, parenting while marginalized, and working with allies and accomplices. |
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The Beauty Ideal: The Effects of European Standards of Beauty on Black Women; (journal article) Columbia Social Work Review, 11 (1), 80–91
By Susan L. Bryant A review of the research indicates that European standards of beauty can have damaging effects on the life trajectories of black women, especially those with dark skin, primarily in the form of internalized self-hatred. Suggestions are made for social work practitioners to address the effects of these internalized European beauty standards among black women through programming and clinical practice. |
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (book)
Edited by: Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua A series of essays, stories, and poems by women of color critiquing white feminism, and discussing racism, dismantling oppression, and revolution. Writers include Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde. |
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Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals (book)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs A meditation for social movements based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. This book uses marine animals—a hunted species struggling to survive—as a metaphor and model for social justice. |
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Women and the Black Power Movement
By: Clint Smith Women have been a powerful (and largely underappreciated) force in the movement for Black equality in the United States. The Black Power Movement is no exception to that trend. Today, we'll learn about how women contributed to several organizations, including the Black Panthers. We'll also explore how the Black Arts Movement served as a way for women to empower Black People through creative output. |
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Women, Race, and Class
By: Angela Y. Davis Angela Davis tackles the role of Black women during slavery, racism in the feminist movement and women’s suffrage movement, what emancipation means for Black women, education and liberation, violence against Black women, and reproductive rights. |
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