Through meticulous research that synthesizes the important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins's timely update demonstrates that Black women's ideas and actions are not marginal concerns but rather are central to the future of social justice within democratic societies. Critical Race Black Feminism "affirms the centrality of Black women's experiences as the subject of research and commitment to forging Black feminist epistemologies.In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success against the odds. Rutgers political scientist Nikol Alexander-Floyd introduces the concept of Critical Race Black Feminism in her book Re-imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-feminist and Post-racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics.
Crafting a standpoint grounded in race, class, and gender, African American women cultivated and circulated "embodied knowledge" that inspired and guided their local activism and became the bases of what became known as Black feminism. Cooper shows how Black women organized clubs, schools, and social movements in the face of growing white intimidation and violence following the abandonment of Reconstruction in 1876.
In Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, R utgers feminist scholar Brittney Cooper provides a systematic examination of Black women's lives and intellectual contributions from the late 19th to the late 20th century. In her seminal book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment Patricia Hill Collins highlights the intersection of race, gender and class and characterizes "lived experiences" of Black women as a "criterion for meaning." Experiences of Black women were diverse and vastly different from the lived experiences of white women. The Combahee River Collective Statement developed by Black feminists articulated their position against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppressions. The Black feminists expended energy to legitimize themselves in the eyes of Black communities. Along with gender inequality, Black Feminism engages with the aspects of racial, class, ability/disability inequalities, individual opportunities and the life trajectory with an intersectional lens. Black Feminism is an intellectual, artistic, and philosophical tradition and activist tradition and practice grounded in African American women's lived experiences.
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