WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Combahee River
25 Sep 2016
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Combahee river collection is a group of black feminists who have been meeting since. They do political work within their own group along with other movements and organizations as well. They act against racial, heterosexual, sexual, and class oppressions and believe that these systems of oppressions are interlocking. Afro-american women continue to have a life and death struggle with american politics which are centered around white males. Many black women activists are unknown (210-211) Black feminist presence evolved within the second wave of feminism during the late. Black feminists have always been present within feminism however, racism and reactionary forces, along with elitism have worked to silence their voices and conceal their participation. In 1973, the national black feminist organization (nbfo) was created by a group of. Black feminists who believed that it was necessary to create a separate black feminist group to have their voices heard.
