Black feminism

reveals itself to be an organic discourse inasmuch as it is faithful to the church while also seeking to remake this most central and cherished institution. This is not viewed as an innovation by womanist theologians but is deemed a continuation of Black women’s traditional culture of struggle survival and, and celebration that represents the likes of womanist muses such as: Maria Steward, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Well-Barnett, and many more. Throughout my reading experience on womanist theology,…

Where We Stand; Feminism and Class Power The key concept I’ve chosen to write about is feminism. bell hooks indicate in her article “Where We Stand; Feminism and Class Power" her outlook on how the feminist movement began and how class powers play a role in feminism. In her article, Bell Hooks analyzes the term feminism as a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and other forms of oppression against women. In her article, Bell Hooks gives a great example of the concept of Feminism through…

men of Huxley’s novel fail to understand, is that liberal movements like that of the Black Lives Matter rallies, and the feminist movement as a whole, is that they’re not to say that no other groups matter, its more that, people are literally being killed for being black and theyre trying to stop that by bringing immense attention to the cause, not that black lives are the only ones that matter. Or even, that feminism is a movement for equality among genders, not trying to prove that women are…

The ideas of “feminism” and “being a feminist” have morphed and changed throughout the years. In Talking Back, published in 1989, bell hooks discusses her experience as a black feminist woman. While ideally there should be no negative connotation to this identity, I have been noticing recently that “feminist” has become almost a dirty word among certain people. The other day, I overheard a conversation at lunch about how a large presence of feminists and their opinions had “ruined” a classroom…

Since the first wave of feminism in America, during the late 1800s into the 1920s, the widely celebrated feminist icons Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton remained adamant about keeping black women out of the feminist movement. They felt they would be perceived as too radical if they included black women in their marches and protests, and get nothing accomplished, so they sacrificed the needs of less privileged women for their own (Boynton). The second wave of feminism, beginning in the…

is credited with introducing intersectionality to feminism in the 1980s. Crenshaw, uses intersectionality to describe overlapping issues, “social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice” (Crenshaw). In a 2016 TED talk, Crenshaw shared the story of her client, Emma DeGraffenreid. DeGraffenreid believed she had not been hired at an automobile manufacturing plant because she was a Black woman. The judge who heard her case dismissed…

Patricia Hill Collins in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, black feminists try to establish a voice for black women’s experiences in the world (p. 221). Black Feminism theorists such as Collins want to create knowledge and power within the black women to stand up to the patterned social domination, and allow subordinate groups to express and establish their own reality (p. 221). According to Ritzer and Stepnisky (2013), feminism theory explores…

interpretation of both sex and gender is able to strongly influence the roles they play within social institutions. The implications of these gender distinctions are that women and men assume unequal positions in terms of opportunities and power. Feminism challenges patriarchal description of gender and sexuality proposing the idea that equality between the sexes can only be achieved by converting social attitudes in regards to gender and sexuality. Many…

immense problem all over the world, it has appeared countless times in the black community of America. I believe that misogyny in the black community, as well as globally, is the result of years and years of sexist traditions, gender roles, and racism. Feminism, for example is a movement that advocates for equal women’s rights, which is astounding, and I believe to be extremely important. But does have many flaws. Though feminism does…

The American professor and critical theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the word intersectionality as a term to use for many types of discrimination. She offered a definition to gender oppression, inequality in work places and society in the lives of black women; particularly in the US, a defined word that many can identify and relate to in the world today. To explain how she defined such multi categorized pattern of bias activity she used the idea of a traffic intersection. “an analogy to traffic…