WGS340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Audre Lorde, Class Discrimination, Jewish Diaspora
24 Apr 2018
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Most work was focused on his us work even though he lived in the us for only 16 years. Nothing about his origin in trini and/or his diasporic work. Being born under the british rule, he wanted to be white and marry a white skinned girl. In school, was forced to learn how black people were a "white man/s burden" In us history the black immigrant subject was absent. Why is that if the archive is showing the history of black radical feminism, why is it that historians are still so redisant to ignore this history. Implication that sympathy was needed for beverley jones for her own murder. Blackness is this umbrella term that is explicitly afro-asian. Women involved and built the first kind of black feminist movement. Black women are the most exploited section of the working class. Sexism within intimate spaces in the black community. Olive was part of a panther youth lead.
