POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anna J. Cooper, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde
8 Feb 2015
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Race and feminism: first and second waves" grounded in earlier movements around race issues. 19th anti-slavery movement, mid-20th century civil rights movement: in first wave" suffragist and feminist movement exclusively white, black women organized as black women, first wave" black women pioneers in abolitionist movement unrecognized. Harriet jacobs 1813-1897: wrote emancipation narrative as a slave, gave lectures. Maria stewart 1803-1880: free-born, first to give public lectures. Anna julia cooper 1858-1964: phd in history, feminist treatise on condition of african americans, promoted black women"s leadership, second wave" contradictions: Black women could not afford rupture with men. Were skeptical of white women"s oppression being compared to that of race. Questioned white women having relationships with black men. Black women were torn between both white feminism and black power/nationalist. Black feminists came from the perspective and experience of black women: writers audre lorde, alice walker and angela davis, bell hooks most prominent. What comes first gender or race: women as a category.
