Dark Continent Of Our Bodies

Black Feminism & Politics Of Respectability

Author: E. Frances White
ISBN: 9781566398800

In this provocative book, a black lesbian feminist looks at black feminism -- its roots, its role, and its implications. From Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century racism to black nationalism and the Nation of Islam, from Baptist women's groups to James Baldwin, E. Frances White takes on one institution after another as she re-centers the role of black women in the United States' intellectual heritage. White presents identity politics as a complex activity, with entangled branches of race and gender, of invisibility and voyeurism, of defiance and passivity and conformism. White's powerful introduction draws on oral narratives from her own family history to illuminate the nature of narrative, both what is said and what is left unsaid. She then sets the historical stage with a helpful history of the inception and development of black feminism and a critique of major black feminist writings. In the three chapters that follow, she addresses the obstacles black feminism has already surmoun

Publisher: Temple University Press
Publish Date: 2001-06-01

Subjects: Social Science / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)