"In a retrospective examination of the black female slave experience, sexism looms as large as racism as an oppressive force in the lives of black women."
An edition of Ain't I a Woman: Black women and Feminism
(1981)
Ain't I a woman
Black women and feminism
by bell hooks, bell hooks, and Bell Hooks
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An examination of the politics of racism and sexism from a feminist perspective, looking at the impact of sexism on African-American women during slavery, the devaluation of African-American womanhood, African-American male sexism, racism within the modern feminist movement, and the African-American woman's involvement in feminism and its experience and relationship to society.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 197-202.
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A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote Ain't I a Woman (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
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