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To a large extent, scholarship on black politics often focuses primarily on institutions, rule of law, processes, political actors, and citizens but with very little attention to issues of gender and sexuality. In contrast, the principal aim of this book is to explore what the author sees as the inextricable links between racism and gender. The basic thesis of this well-written, important, and provocative book is that the fight against racism, especially the “new racism,” can never be won without first challenging sexism, which simultaneously oppresses African-American men and women.

La combinaison des rapports de sexe, de classe et interethniques dans la production des inégalités n’a été que très partiellement étudiée en France, et surtout de manière très générale et fort peu opératoire. En s’appuyant sur les travaux des Black Feminists, cet article propose une introduction au riche débat sur le thème de l’intersection de ces différents rapports sociaux qui s’est développé en Amérique du Nord, de manière conjointe dans les champs académiques et militants, depuis une trentaine d’années. Il aborde ses conditions d’émergence et de développement, sous l’impulsion d’Afro-américaines voulant faire reconnaître la spécificité de leur expérience du monde social ; les enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques ainsi que les efforts d’application empirique de ce cadre d’analyse ; enfin ses prolongements juridiques et politiques, marqués par une tendance à la réification des catégories de l’altérité (la « race », le genre, la classe) au détriment des processus qui les produisent.À l’heure où la France s’apprête à se doter d’une autorité indépendante de lutte contre les discriminations, cette vigoureuse discussion offre nombre d’enseignements tant pour leur analyse que pour leur traitement.

Black studies emerged from the tumultuous social and civil rights movements of the 1960s and empowered African Americans to look at themselves in new ways and pass on a dignified version of Black history. However, it also enriched traditional disciplines in profound and significant ways. Proponents of Black and ethnic studies confronted the false notion that scholarly investigations were objective and unbiased explorations of the range of human knowledge, history, creativity, artistry, and scientific discovery. As they protested against hegemonic notions like universal psychology and re-evaluated canonical texts in literature, a new model of academic inquiry evolved: one committed to serving a range of populations, that critiqued traditional politics, culture, and social affairs, and worked with activist energy for the transformation of the existing social order. With an all-star cast of contributors, The Black Studies Reader takes on the history and future of this multi-faceted academic field. Topics include Black feminism, cultural politics, Black activism, lesbian and gay issues, African American literature and film, education, and religion. This authoritative collection takes a critical look at the current state of Black studies and speculates on where it may go from here.

Ensemble de textes de la poétesse et militante féministe noire américaine (1934-1992) où elle exprime sa pensée sur les injustices civiles et sociales, les droits civiques, le féminisme, l'identité féminine noire. Un souvenir revient dans les écrits d'Audre Lorde. C'est l'hiver à New York. Audre est dans le métro avec sa mère. Emmitouflée, elle est assise à côté d'une dame en manteau de fourrure. Elle regarde la dame, blanche, qui d'une main rageuse retire le pan de manteau qui effleure l'enfant. Une enfant Noire qui ne comprend pas et cherche désespérément un cafard, une poussière, bref une saleté justifiant ce geste. Quelque chose pour ne pas réaliser que la saleté... c'est elle. Ensuite, le regard rageur de la dame blanche qui tue l'enfant Noire de cinq ans parce qu'elle ne peut pas le nommer : le regard du racisme. Un souvenir vrillé en elle, plus qu'une douleur, une souffrance indélébile qui permet à la poète adulte d'affirmer qu'au fond, en Amérique, on ne veut pas que les Noir-e-s vivent. Audre a vécu, survécu, pour nous dire son « amérique », ses passions, ses colères, dans une série d'écrits lumineux.

While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s through the particular contributions of women of color. She explores the relationship between second-wave feminists, who were concerned with a woman's right to choose, Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were concerned that Black and Puerto Rican women have as many children as possible "for the revolution," and women of color themselves, who negotiated between them. Contrary to popular belief, Nelson shows that women of color were able to successfully remake the mainstream women's liberation and abortion rights movements by appropriating select aspects of Black Nationalist politics--including addressing sterilization abuse, access to affordable childcare and healthcare, and ways to raise children out of poverty--for feminist discourse.

In this lively and engaging book, Lisa Gail Collins examines the work of contemporary African American women artists. Her study comes at a time when an unprecedented number of these artists-photographers, filmmakers, painters, installation and mixed-media artists-have garnered the attention and imagination of the art-viewing public. To better understand the significance of this particular historical moment in American visual arts, Collins focuses on four "problems" that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; the relationship between art and cultural contact and change; and the relationship between art and black girlhood. By examining the social and cultural histories which African American women artists engage, Collins illuminates a dialogue between past and present imagemakers. The Art of History is a major contribution to the study of American visual culture. It will be of use to both scholars and students in art history, African American studies, American studies, and women's studies.

A revision of a hugely successful book; this is the 'bible' of contemporary black feminist thought and is widely cited and taught as a seminal text. Completely up-to-date with recent events, trends in popular culture, current events, and politics.

This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities―as well as the transformative possibilities―between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.

Fille d'une esclave violée par un marin anglais à bord d'un vaisseau négrier, Tituba, née à la Barbade, est initiée aux pouvoirs surnaturels par Man Yaya, guérisseuse et faiseuse de sorts. Son mariage avec John Indien l'entraîne à Boston puis au village de Salem, au service du révérend Samuel Parris. Elle est emprisonnée à la suite du procès des sorcières de Salem en 1692.

"One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race. Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it"--Back cover.

Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.

Contemporary feminist and antiracist discourses have failed to consider the intersections of racism and patriarchy. To overcome this difficulty, an original approach is suggested here: that of intersectionality. In the first part, the paper discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women. The focus is shifted in the second part to political intersectionality, with the analysis of how both feminist and antiracist politics have functioned in tandem to marginalize the issue of violence against women of color. Finally, the implications of the intersectional approach are addressed within the broader scope of contemporary identity politics.

Pour bell hooks, la meilleure critique culturelle ne voit pas la nécessité de séparer la politique du plaisir de lire. Yearning rassemble certains des classiques et des premiers morceaux de critique culturelle de hooks des années 80. Abordant des sujets tels que la pédagogie, le postmodernisme et la politique, hooks examine une variété d'artefacts culturels, du film Do the Right Thing de Spike Lee et du film Wings of Desire de Wim Wenders aux écrits de Zora Neale Hurston et Toni Morrison. Le résultat est une collection poignante d'essais qui, comme tout le travail de hooks, s'intéresse avant tout à la transformation des structures oppressives de domination.

A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women’s writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here, leading literary critics—both male and female, black and white—look at fiction, nonfiction, poetry, slave narratives, and autobiographies in a totally new way. In essence, they reconstruct a literary history that documents black women as artists, intellectuals, symbol makers, teachers, and survivors. Important writers whose work and lives are explored include Toni Morrison, Gloria Gaynor, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker, and the fascinating list of essays range from Nellie Y. McKay’s “The Souls of Black Women Folk in the Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois” to Jewelle L Gomez’s very personal tribute to Lorraine Hansberry as a dramatist and crusader for social justice. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editor of this anthology and a noted authority on African-American literature, has provided a thought-provoking introduction that celebrates the experience of “reading black, reading feminist.” A penetrating look at women’s writing from a unique perspective, this superb collection brings to light the rich heritage of literary creativity among African-American women.

En rassemblant et en présentant les œuvres de Stewart, Richardson offre aux lecteurices l'occasion d'étudier les pensées et les paroles de cette influente militante noire, précurseuse de Frederick Douglass et de Sojourner Truth et première noire américaine à donner des conférences pour la défense des droits des femmes, la plaçant dans le contexte du mouvement abolitionniste tourbillonnant.