The Feminist Movement: The Black Feminist Perspective

The black feminist thought is a collection of ideas, writings, and the art that expresses a point of view and for black women of the African diaspora. Describes black women as a single group that exists in a "place in us social relations where intersectional processes of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and the black women of forms individual and collective consciousness and actions. Point of view as a theory, black feminist thought conceptualizes identities as fluid and interdependent socially constructed "locations within a historical context. It is based on the historical experience of black women with slavery, the anti-lynching, civil rights and Black Power movement, sexual politics, capitalism and patriarchy.

Distinctive principles of black feminist thought include:

(1) The legitimization of partial, Subjugated knowledge as a single point of view, various; (2) Black women s multiple oppressions resulting in the ideologies and

The black feminist thought has been expressed historically through social and political activism national collective (black feminist organization; Combahee River Collective Bargaining). Black feminists say that all black women have the common experience of oppression(s) despite the fact that they occupy different social places and possess privileges of variable.

Black feminists broke from the mainstream of feminists of the 1970s. At this time, the black feminist thought began to reflect a provocative, sophisticated critique of the dominant white women's movement and theorizations. Black feminist writings do not advocate a separatist movement completely from the mainstream of feminism but to make an appeal for the inclusion of all the experiences of women in scientific research. Attention to the interlocking nature of race, ethnicity, gender, social class and sexual orientation in the course of time and geography is a recurring theme in his