Full Description
A landmark contribution to the field of Black feminist studies, this book brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in global Black feminist theories.
Featuring groundbreaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. Moving beyond standard academic essays, it also includes vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, creative essays which carry Black feminist thought.
The book is broken up into five carefully curated sections:
- Black Feminist Classic Texts and Assertions
- Statements and Manifestos
- Cultures and Aesthetics
- Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- Black Feminist Futures
Timely and important, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black studies, women & gender studies and Black feminist studies, as well as more generally to American studies, African studies, Caribbean studies and African diaspora studies.
Contents
PART I: BLACK FEMINIST CLASSIC TEXTS AND ASSERTIONS
Chapter 1. Margaret Washington, "I Am A Woman Rights": Reclaiming the Voice of Sojourner Truth" (new essay)
Chapter 2. Ana Julia Cooper - excerpt from A Voice from the South (excerpt reprint)
Chapter 3. Jane Nardal, "Black Internationalism/Internationalisme noire" 1928 (new translation by Myriam Moise)
Chapter 4. Claudia Jones, "We Seek Full Equality" (reprint CBD permission - no cost)
Chapter 5. Nancy Morejon "Mujer Negra" (reprint of poem)
Chapter 6. Leila Gonzalez, "For an Afro-Latin American Feminism" (English and Portuguese) (reprint of essay - no cost)
Chapter 7. Molara Ogundipe, ""SITWANISM" excerpt from Re-Creating Ourselves (reprint, no cost)
Chapter 8. Rhoda Reddock, "Elma Francois, Caribbean Working-class Feminism" (new essay)
Chapter 9. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, "African Indigenous Feminisms" (excerpt from novel reprint, no cost)
Chapter 10. Alice Walker & Beverly Guy Sheftall - reflection on Womanism (new)
PART II: STATEMENTS AND MANIFESTOES
Chapter 11. Flavia Rios - Afro-Latin American Feminisms
Chapter 12. Alissa Trotz and Honor Ford-Smith - Caribbean Women's Movements
Chapter 13. Nicole Burrowes - Black feminist manifestos as praxis
Chapter 14. Sureshi M. Jayawardene, "Cultural Specificity in the Lives and Leadership of Africana Women in South Asia
Chapter 15. Lola Olufemi - Afro-Europe
Chapter 16. Ida B Wells - Black Women's Club Movement
Chapter 17. National Black Feminist Organisation (Chicago) - Statement of Purpose [Received, No cost to reprint]
Chapter 18. Combahee River Collective - Combahee River Collective Statement
Chapter 19."Movilización de Mujeres Afrodescendientes por el Cuidado de la Vida y los Territorios Ancestrales Noviembre Yolombo- Bogotá" (translation)
Chapter 20. Sueli Carneiro - Enegrecer o Feminismo or invite her to reflect on the Black feminist movement in Brazil (translation)
Chapter 21. The African Feminist Forum - Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
Chapter 22. "A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement", Alicia Garza
Chapter 23. Statement from the Black Women's March
Chapter 24. "A Caribbean Girl's Life in Leggings" - Code Red for Gender Justice
Chapter 25. "On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A US Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco"
Chapter 26. "Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis" A Statement
Chapter 27. Marcha das Putas responses
Chapter 28. My Dress My Choice - Nairobi
Chapter 29. Nala Feminist Collective - Africa Young Women B+25 Manifesto
Chapter 30. Tina Mfanga - Red Carpet Feminism
Chapter 31. Muthoni Wanyeki - African Feminist Movement and Manifesto
PART III: CULTURES AND AESTHETICS
Chapter 32. Victoria Santa Cruz - Me Gritaron Negra (reprint) - no cost
Chapter 33. Conceição Evaristo - "I Woman" & "Women's Voices" (translation and reprint) - no cost
Chapter 34. Micere Mugo, "Excerpt from Interview on African Women and Feminism" (reprint) - no cost and received approval for reprint
Chapter 35. bell hooks, "loving Blackness as political resistance" (reprint)
Chapter 36. Renee Alexander, Meida McNeal, Mshai S. Mwangola and Queen Meccasia E. Zabriskie - "The Quilt" - Tenants of Black Feminist Ethnography (reprint - no cost)
Chapter 37. Meida Mcneal - on Black Feminist Performance Ethnography through the lens of Honey Pot Performance (new essay)
Chapter 38. Wangui wa Goro - Birthing Feminist Black Writing (new essay)
Chapter 39.Mshai Mwangola with Diana Kamara - "The Cloth that Talks" (new essay)
SECTION IV: BODIES, GENDERS AND EXUALITIES
Chapter 40. Audre Lorde "I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities" (reprint - no cost)
Chapter 41. June Jordan - "A New Politics of Sexuality" (reprint - no cost)
Chapter 42. Beatriz Nascimento, "The Black Woman and Love" (reprint - no cost)
Chapter 43. Rosamond S. King - "Jamettes' Caribbean Protest Tradition" (new essay)
Chapter 44. LaMonda Horton-Stallings - "Changing How We Desire (?): Black Feminist Theory Interventions on Queer Studies" (new essay)
Chapter 45. Marquis Bey - "The Underside of Black Feminist Theorizing" (new essay)
Chapter 46. Carmen Faustino "My Sacred Orgasm" ("Meu Orgasmo Sagrado") (translation and reprint - no cost)
Chapter 47. Njoki Ngumi - "This is the Nest" Collective - Strictly Silk (new essay)
PART V: BLACK FEMINIST FUTURES
Chapter 48. Octavia Butler - "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" (Essence - $750 for reprint)
Chapter 49. Wangari Maathai - "The Cracked Mirror" (Greenbelt Movement - permission to reprint - no cost)
Chapter 50. Nnedi Okorafor - "Africanfuturism Defined" (reprint - author permission - no cost)
Chapter 51. Nadia Sanger - "Africanfuturism and Black Feminist Politics: Looking to the Future" (new essay)
Chapter 52. Myriam J. Chancy - "Haitian Feminism at the Crossroads" (new essay)
Chapter 53. Moya Bailey - "Misogynoir on the Move: A Dandelion Story" (new essay)
Chapter 54. Anna Hinton - "Cripping #BlackGirlMagic, Black (Girl) Being" (new essay)
Chapter 55. Tabita Rezaire - "Decolonial Healing: In Defense of Spiritual Technologies" (reprint - author/copyright owner permission - no cost)
Chapter 56. Alexis Pauline Gumbs - "dark energy (for Harriet Tubman)" (reprint - author permission - no cost )
Chapter 57. Janell Hobson - "The Embodied Past, The Liberated Future" (new essay)
Index
