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- Title
REMEMBERING AND RECLAIMING THE GENIUS OF BEAH RICHARDS' A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS ... OF WHITE WOMANHOOD, OF WHITE SUPREMACY, OF PEACE.
- Authors
Pelak, Cynthia Fabrizio
- Abstract
Beah Richards is not a name that immediately comes to mind when one thinks of feminist theorists of the twentieth century. Yet, her 1951 poem A Black Woman Speaks o f White Womanhood, o f White Supremacy, o f Peace contains unmistakable theoretical assertions about the simultaneity of race, gender and class oppression that predates multiracial feminist theorizing that emerged in the academy during the late twentieth century. This analysis examines the epistemological assumptions and theoretical assertions articulated in A Black Woman Speaks, exploring the ways in which the poem exemplifies an intercategorical, praxis-intersectionality approach and integrates group-centered, process-centered, and system-centered analytical varieties. The author argues that collectively remembering and reclaiming the genius of Beah Richards opens up an opportunity to reaffirm the radical political roots of an intersectionality approach, which often are forgotten in the depoliticized and commodified economic and cultural landscape of academia in the twenty-first century.
- Subjects
RICHARDS, Beah; AFRICAN American women; ANALYTICAL entry (Cataloging); OPPRESSION; WHITE supremacy
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 3/4, p189
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article