Reading List: Black Feminism

Black Feminism

In the winter of 2015 I took a course in Black Feminism at my graduate department and it was one of the highlights of my educational experience. In this course I was introduced to many different Black feminist and the course really helped me understand my own life experiences. Prior to this course I unfortunately had limited knowledge of Black feminists and I also had very little background in studying women right’s. I have put together a list of Black feminist thinkers and I included some of their best work. I have included key pieces of work from Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlé Crenshaw and several other black feminists. This list is foundational for anyone interested in learning Black feminism and intersectionality.

 Here is a reading list I put together:

 Alicia Garza. “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement”

Andrea Ritchie. “Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color”

Ange Marie Hancock. “Intersectionality as a Normative and Empirical Paradigm”

Angela Davis. "Rape, Racism and the Capitalist Setting”

Barbara Christian. “Race for Theory”

Barbara Smith. “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”

Barbara Smith. Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement (WOF) Audre Lorde. “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (WOF)

bell hooks. “Theory as Liberatory Practice”

bell hooks. Black Women Intellectuals”

C. Hudson-Weems. “Africana Womanism”

Combahee River Collective. “The Combahee River Collective Statement” (WOF)

Darlene Hine. “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women” (WOF)

Kimberlé Crenshaw. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex”

Kristen West Savali “Black Women are Killed by the Cops Too”

Michele Goodwin. "Gender, Race, and Mental Illness: The Case of Wanda Jean Allen"

Nikol Floyd-Alexander. “Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Inersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era”

Patricia Hill Collins. “Rethinking Black Women’s Activism”

Patricia Hill Collins. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought” (WOF)

Patricia Hill Collins. “What’s in a Name: Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond”

Sojourner Truth. “Woman’s Rights” & “When Woman Gets Her Rights Man will be Right” (WOF)

XOXO

Shukri