The Black Feminist Reader

, by James, Joy; Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean

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ISBN: 9780631210078 | 0631210075
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Copyright: 6/8/2000

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Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements.

Joy James is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender & Race in US Culture (1996); Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1996), Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics (1999). James is also editor of the Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1998), States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons (2000), and co-editor of Spirit, Space & Survival: African American Women In (White) Academe (1993), which received the 1994 Gustavus Myers Human Rights award.

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Associate Professor of French and Director of the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University. She is author of Frantz Fanon: Conflicts & Feminisms (1997) and Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears and Primitive Narratives in French (1999). She is co-editor of Fanon: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (1997), which received an honorable mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America in 1997.

List of Contributors

vii

Preface

Acknowledgements

xiii

Editors' Introduction

(10)

I Literary Theory

The Race for Theory

(13)

Barbara Christian

Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature

(33)

Toni Morrison

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book

(31)

Hortense J. Spillers

A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism

(21)

Michael Awkward

Beyond Miranda's Meanings: Un/silencing the ``Demonic Ground'' of Caliban's ``Woman''

109

(22)

Sylvia Wynter

II Social and Political Theory

Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory

131

(15)

bell hooks

Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation

146

(37)

Angela Y. Davis

The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought

183

(25)

Patricia Hill Collins

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

208

(31)

Kimberle Crenshaw

Radicalizing Feminism

239

(46)

Joy James

Appendix: Key Feminist Statements

Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement (1977)

261

(10)

African American Women in Defense of Ourselves (1991)

271

(2)

Open Letter from Assata Shakur (1998)

273

(12)

Bibliography

285

(4)

Index

289

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