Black Feminist Thought

When I was five years old, I chose to do spring in a pre - school class beauty contest. Sitting on my throne, I sponsored the children's palace proudly depicting birds, flowers, and another "les" season. Surrounded by children like me - my daughter and son of a worker, housework worker, secretary and factory worker - I confirmed who I am. When I became speaking, I skillfully completed several lines with great enthusiasm and energy. I like Spring so I like it very much. It is the season of new life and hope. All adults tell me how important my role is and I am very active in my performance. Their words and hugs make me feel important, and my thoughts, feelings, and achievements are important.

As my world expands, I understand that no one agrees with them. Since adolescence I have been increasingly in my school, community "first" or "minority", "only" African-American and / or women and / or working class people, and at work became. . I think who is, but many people seem to be wrong. My world is getting bigger and bigger, I feel I am getting smaller. I tried to erase myself as an African-American person to divert the daily painful attack, aiming to tell me that a working-class woman reduced me less than someone else . When I feel small I get more quiet and I am almost silent.

This book reflects the stage of my ongoing effort to regain my voice. Over the years I have been trying to replace the external definition of life that the dominant group advances with our own defined view. However, my personal adventure is the driving force of this book, but now I found that my experience is far from the others. Like many African-American women, many other women who occupy socially degraded categories are silent as well. So what I am seeking now is a personal, collective, personal, and political opinion, reflecting the intersection of my unique biography and the importance of my historical era .

I shared this part of the background stimulating the book. Because this background has influenced my own volume selection itself. First of all, I am striving to rigorously strictly study this book, doing research well, and doing more.

"With the announcement of the idea of ​​black feminism black feminism has risen to a new level.Her work sets criteria for discussing the lives, experiences, thoughts of black women, and the complexity of these experiences and Require close attention to the quest "The ideology of black feminist is indispensable for understanding the situation in black women and the position in the overall struggle to reduce and eliminate gender, race, class inequality Provide a series of knowledge.This book analyzes the concept of black women, especially those reflecting opposition to oppression.

The experience of a black woman is the core of black feminist thought and the first theme of black feminist theory is the desire to find the voice of a black woman who can express self definition. Patricia Hill Collins defines the idea of ​​a black feminist as expert knowledge created by black women. And it reveals the experiences and thoughts shared by black women and provides a unique view to self, community and society. "And it was placed in a struggle between black women and the system. Opression 8

Thoughts focus on the meaning of change. In order for black feminist ideas to function effectively as a social justice project in black feminism, both must remain dynamic. A black feminist can not be either a critical social theory or a black feminist's practice static; as social conditions change, knowledge and practices designed to resist them must also change. For example, emphasizing that the centrality of black women is important for black feminist thinking means that all African-American women are eager to acquire this intellectual leadership position or qualification It is not to do. In the current situation, some black female philosophers lost contact with black feminist. On the contrary, the social situation in which African-American women are becoming female has changed - by class