...Miglena S. Todorova Abstract Recent scholarship on Black American women and feminists in the radical Left documents how these women's travel to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries in the twentieth century influenced their understanding of racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism...

...Laura Lomas Abstract The exiled Cuban poet, editor, and feminist Lourdes Casal breaks with social scientific convention and identifies in the first person with “Hispanic Blackness,” feminism, and Cuba in her essays about race and revolution. Her bridging of identity categories informs Casal’s self...

... . James Joy . 1999 . Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics . New York : St. Martin’s Press . James Joy . 2000 . “ Radicalizing Feminism .” In The Black Feminist Reader , edited by Sharpley-Whiting T. Denean and James Joy , 239 – 58 . Malden, MA...

... overlooked in popular and academic works. In this essay, I aim to bridge some of these conversations by linking early works of radical feminists of color with contemporary hip-hop feminism in an effort to frame Ndegeocello's contributions to hip-hop culture, Black queer identity, and feminism. At the same...

... for everydaychanges and transformations in the sex trade and for policies and practices that would strengthen them as autonomous, knowing subjects. We could also acknowledge their efforts as part of the contemporary transnational women's movement. Legacies of Black radical feminism and Third World feminism position...

... associated with Black feminism. Where proto-intersectional groups like the Combahee River Collective insisted that “we believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity” (Combahee River Collective 1983 , 16), a sentiment that Crenshaw would share...

... moment in which post-mania has lead some to declare the advent of post-feminism, Black feminisms are flourishing throughout the region. Afrofeminisms or Black feminisms have a long history in the region, but it is just in recent decades that have become visible as a tradition of thought and politics...

... associated with black feminism. Where proto-intersectional groups like the Combahee River Collective insisted that "we believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity" (Combahee River Collective 1983,16),a sentiment that Crenshaw would share...

... Motsemmi’s ( 2004 ) reading of “violence and place,” which helped me lean more closely toward the yearning for new spaces of intellectual feminist discourse and solidarity. Such radical thinking about the interactions of black femaleness with colonial and neocolonial infrastructures of patriarchal power...

... for overreliance on corporate philanthropy and liberal rights- and reform-based politics in lieu of confronting corporate power, state authority, and policing. Like race-radical Black feminists, Indigenous feminism centers antiracist and anticolonial praxis within its anti-violence organizing and LENAPALACIOS...

... affinities—not to mention the long history of Black internationalism in the United States—their radical intervention was still largely U.S. centric, as was the Brave anthology itself. Likewise, given area studies’s origins in the Cold War U.S. anti-communist intelligence community, early Latin American...

... and black feminist genealogies? Could transnational feminism decenter the Global North as a touchstone or default comparative for women’s experiences worldwide and include geographies that were Pacific, African, Latin American, and Caribbean? What was the potential of transnational feminism to shed light...

...," its necessary acknowledgment of what cannot be known, can make knowledge production within the context of the university a process that enables, rather than extinguishes, black feminists. As JoyJames has argued, black feminism is not monolithic, but has liberal, radical, and revolutionary trajectories...

..., antiracist, postcolonial/decolonial, and anti-imperial political alliances and epistemologies. This is particularly the case among Afro-descendant feminisms and all who embrace anti-racist politics; the "intertwined diasporas" that forged Blackness in the Americas make it "imperative that the vernacular...

... Chisholm's status as a "pioneer in developing an intersectional black feminist praxis" in her campaigns, and argues that it was her embrace of feminism in the late 196os that radicalized her (Guild 2009, 250, 257-258). Concurring with Guild's assessment, I engage more closely with her activities while she...

... required a re-elaboration of discourse and of the political practices offeminism. The determining element altering the ideological perspective of the political practice of feminism has been the emerging black women's movement. Blackening Feminism "Blackening feminism" is the expression we have been using...

...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...

... and their health. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 CHINYERE OKAFOR Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques...

... Woman Cross-Culturally: An Overview .” In The Black Woman Cross-Culturally , edited by Steady Filomina Chioma , 7 – 41 . Rochester, VT : Schenkman Books . Steady Filomina Chioma . 1996 . “ African Feminism: A Worldwide Perspective .” In Women in Africa and the African Diaspora...

... and parable and her performative use of emotion, dramatic climax, and song (Humez 2003 , 133–39). Copyright © 2014 Smith College 2014 black feminism distortion radicalism representation multiple oppressions As an iconic figure of U.S. history, and specifically of Black women’s history...