This entry examines the development and changes in black feminist thought from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries. The major contributors to black feminism(s) are noted, and the key ideas are interrogated. The signature contribution of black feminism, intersectionality, is explored in some detail. New theorizations grounded in African feminism, queer of color critique, and black trans thinking are discussed. While there are multiple feminisms globally, the central concern of black feminism in the United States and the African world is attentiveness to race, nation, class, and gender as categories of analysis and systemic realities. These are social forces deeply interconnected in the lives of black women. Black feminism challenges a generic feminism unmediated by race and class. This theoretical move is intersectional.
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Brewer, R. M. (2016). Feminism, Black. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (pp. 1–5). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss485
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