HUMA 1951 Chapter Notes -Separatist Feminism, Combahee River
4 Oct 2013
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A collection of black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. Actively committed to struggling against racist, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. Black women have always embodied an adversary stance to white male rule and have actively resisted in its inroads upon them and their communities. Our development must also be tied to the contemporary economic and political position of the black people. Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else"s but because of our need as humans for autonomy. Difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously. We struggle together with black men against racism, while we also struggle with black men about racism. The liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political- economic systems of capitalism and imperialism, and patriarchy.
