Women's Studies 2263F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Melissa Harris-Perry, Roost Records, Essence Atkins
28 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Where do you fit on the extreme of black womanhood. Important to contextualize it, reasons to go natural in 60s are more political then they are now. Liberal subject, is a person that is individual, a free person who can do what they want, aren"t tied down by the collective, create their own individual experiences: critically engages with that. Wells; anna julia cooper; ella baker; shirley chisholm; Group of black women met from a larger organization, named themselves after harriet. Tubman, freed more than 750 slaves, called themselves combahee river collective: we are a collective of black feminists who have been meeting together since. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. Individual black women experience their hair for different reasons: how does one do an intersectional framework, intersectionality argues it isn"t race. Down (2000: in short, i needed a feminism brave enough to fuck with the grays.
