How We Get Free

Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Author: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
ISBN: 9781608468553

If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free. --Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ NonfictionThe Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today's struggles. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin

Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publish Date: 2017

Subjects: History / African American & Black, History / Women, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory

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