Knowra Black feminist thought Black feminist thought Black feminist thought is an intellectual tradition that analyzes how race, gender, class, and other structures of power interact in Black women's lives and knowledge.
Intersectionality : A framework for analyzing how social categories and systems of power interact to shape people's lives. It names the intersecting structures that Black feminist thought examines.
Sojourner Truth : A nineteenth-century abolitionist and women's rights activist known for the speech commonly titled “Ain't I a Woman?” Her activism and speech became enduring reference points for Black women's critiques of exclusion.
Patricia Hill Collins : An American sociologist whose work developed influential accounts of Black feminist thought and the matrix of domination. Her scholarship systematized key concepts and made the tradition central to social theory.
Black feminist literary criticism : A critical approach that studies how literature represents Black women's lives, identities, and power. It applies Black feminist concepts to authorship, form, and representation in literature.
White feminism : Feminist politics and analysis that center white women's experiences while marginalizing or overlooking racial power. Black feminist thought challenges feminism that treats white women's concerns as universal.
Matrix of domination : Patricia Hill Collins's framework for understanding how interlocking systems of oppression organize power across social institutions and everyday life. It maps the interlocking power relations at the heart of this tradition.
Combahee River Collective : A Boston-based Black feminist socialist organization active from 1974 to 1980. Its 1977 statement articulated a foundational account of interlocking oppressions and collective liberation.
bell hooks : An American author and cultural critic whose writing examined race, gender, class, and education. Her books connected Black feminist analysis to popular culture, pedagogy, and everyday life.
Intersectional feminism : Feminist analysis and activism attentive to how gender interacts with race, class, sexuality, disability, and other power relations. It carries insights from Black feminist analysis into wider feminist scholarship and organizing.
Black masculinity studies : Scholarship examining how race, gender, sexuality, and power shape Black men's identities and lives. Its focus differs while sharing attention to race and gender as mutually shaping forces.
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