How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Paperback/Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Paperback/Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Editura
An publicare
2017
Nr. Pagini
200
ISBN
9781608468553

Descriere

Praise for From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation ``This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #Black Lives Matter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.``--Dr. Cornel West``Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's searching examination of the social, political, and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation.``--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today's struggles. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Guardian, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Ms., International Socialist Review, and other publications. Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

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