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The Black Feminist Reader

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Joy James is Visiting Professor/John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of the Humanities and College Professor in Political Science at Williams College. Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is a feminist scholar and Distinguished Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science.

They state in the Preface to this 2000 collection, "in our estimation the following essays best reflect the literary, social, and political critiques that mark this area of feminism as singular, controversial, and trnasformative. The ten essays reprinted here were written during the last twenty-five years by intellectuals who address key themes within black feminisms: the intersections of sex, gender, and race, sometimes class and ideology."

Contributors include Patricia Hill Collins, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and others; Joy James contributes an essay, as well. Titles of essays include, "A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism"; "Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory"; "Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation"; "The Social Consciousness of Black Feminist Thought"; "Radicalizing Feminism," etc.