Search Results for Black feminism

...Raj Chetty This essay approaches the stage versions of Toussaint Louverture (1934) and The Black Jacobins (1967), first, to emphasize the role of C. L. R. James’s collaborations in the creation of the plays, and second, to argue that the latter version of the play presents a radical feminism...

...Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Jean-Charles engages scholarship across multiple disciplines and fields—Haitian studies, Caribbean studies, Black feminist studies, media studies, ecofeminism, anthropology, geography, and history...

...Louis Chude-Sokei The Black Scholar ( TBS ), established in 1969, emerged from a public confluence of black political and cultural movements—black power, black arts, Pan-Africanism and decolonization, black feminism, and the emergence of a black political class. As primary intellectual organ...

...Nathalie Batraville In Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022), Régine Jean-Charles evokes revolutionary figures such as Sanité Bélair and Victoria Montou, who fought in the Haitian Revolution. She also revisits the legacy of Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, who was said...

...Nadève Ménard Régine Jean-Charles’s Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) is part of a refreshing trend in Haitian studies of books that center a Haitian perspective. This review essay takes the liberty of offering reflections toward an alternate coda. What kind...

...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls’ dreams for the future. The author...

... to a hemispheric and anticipatory Black lesbian politic. The essay builds on previous work on Black lesbian feminism in Cuba and provides insight into the type of activism that was happening in the island in the mid-2010s, which laid the groundwork for the growth in Afro-feminist and Afro-queer activism...

..., “Introduction: Mapping a Genealogy of Black British Feminism,” Black British Feminism, ed. H. S. Mirza (London: Routledge Press, 1997), 3. 113838 Contrary to an essentialized notion of blackness rooted in biology, the term “black,” within the British context, has been a site of resistance...

... populations interact within, navigate through, and disrupt racialized and gendered spaces. N athalie B atraville is an associate professor at Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She teaches in the areas of Black feminisms, sexuality studies, and prison abolition. Her scholarship has...

..., to construe blackness, black studies, and black feminism as local, ethnographic phenomena—rather than as “the history of Western Civilization” or a “vestibular moment” in the engendering of the West—feeds the very racialized coloniality we are trying to demolish. 4 Given that blackness is frequently...

...,” the essay shows how experimentation with gender practices on the plantation resulted in a sedimentation that generates a particular sex-gender subjectivation that María Lugones calls “versions” of women and men. This dialogue between Latin American decolonial feminism, Black critical theory, and Caribbean...

...Faith Smith This essay argues that the death of a fictional photographer in the 1907 novel Rupert Gray: A Tale in Black and White allays anxieties posed by photographic surveillance and “feminization.” Even if the novel's faith in the British Empire disqualifies it from being radical, its portrayal...

... feminisms, and shifts in Black popular and academic cultures in the 1990s. Just past its thirtieth anniversary, the book’s critical methodologies enabled much of contemporary thinking about race, gender, and popular cultures in the African diaspora. However, it also establishes some aesthetic and political...

... for understanding late colonialism in the Caribbean, it has caricatured Caribbean feminist interventions in nationalist projects, and it contributes to the feminization of an enduring Caribbean “coloniality.” © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 marriage gender nationalism black families In Jamaica...

... The political necessity for such a collective and such a stance in the landscape of contemporary feminisms in France became self-evident for Omankoy: “Even within the plurality of feminisms presented to her, the absence of a feminist space dedicated to Black women was felt. A space where it would have been...

... Indian literature and Caribbean popular culture, and is currently writing a book on anglophone Caribbean literary and cultural theories. Ifeona Fulani teaches African and African diasporic literatures and writing at New York University. Her research interests include black feminisms and Afro...

... recalling “From Center to Margin,” an earlier essay by Gaines that addressed the pivotal role of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman in the articulation of black feminism. But the new research provides additional contexts and history for the works of people like Alice Childress...

... atraville is a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. She researches cultural formations and history, with a focus on black feminist and queer theory, race, class, and anticolonialism. Her new project theorizes black feminisms across the French Atlantic. She is also working...

... was destroyed by the stomach-churning, acidic tides of racism. . . . In South London, an acid rain fell on their interracial parade, replacing affection with bitter resentment” (112, 113). Carby’s 1982 essay “White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood” had a tremendous impact...

... egalitarian institution with regard to gender than any African American institution not specifically defined by women’s concerns and membership. This iteration of anti-imperialist, internationalist black feminism, of which Jones was a central figure, was often featured in the pages...