The Combahee River Collective Statement
Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies And Eighties
The Combahee River Collective
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.
We will discuss four major topics in the paper that follows: (1) the genesis of contemporary Black feminism; (2) what we believe, i.e., the specific province of our politics; (3) the problems in organizing Black feminists, including a brief herstory of our collective; and (4) Black feminist issues and practice…
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| ISBN | 9780913750506 |
| Genre | Black Interest; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences |
| Publication Date | 1986 |
| Publisher | Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press |
| No. of Pages | 21 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Foreword Author | Barbara Smith |
| BookID | 2235 |
