Recommended Reading

Alice Walker

• alice walker on the ancestors

Audre Lorde

• the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house

• uses of the erotic: the erotic as power

• age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference·     

•  i am your sister: black women organizing across sexualities

bell hooks

• teaching new worlds/words

• theory as liberatory practice

• healing male spirit

• an aesthetic of blackness: strange and oppositional

• eating the other: desire and resistance

• overcoming white supremacy: a comment

• the oppositional gaze: black female spectators

• love as the practice of freedom

Combahee River Collective

• a black feminist statement

Joy James

• radicalising feminism

• the womb of western theory: trauma, time theft, and the captive maternal

• black suffering in search of the “beloved community”: political imprisonment and self defense

June Jordan

• the difficult miracle of black poetry in america: something like a sonnet for phillis wheatley

Kimberle Crenshaw

• mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color

• demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a black feminist critique of anti-discrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics

Lucille Clifton

• lucille clifton on what poetry is

• lucille clifton on where ideas comes from

Margaret Walker

·       margaret walker on writing style

Michelle Wallace

• a black feminist’s search for sisterhood

Octavia Butler

• positive obsession

Patricia Hill-Collins

• controlling images and black women’s oppression

Rose Brewer

• Black Feminism and Womanism

Saidiya Hartman

• the belly of the word: a note on black women’s labors

Toni Morrison

• the site of memory

• i wanted to carve out a world both culture specific and race-free’: an essay by toni morrison

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