Sublime

The understanding that different groups have different experiences, beliefs, and values was largely influenced by some black feminists, who criticized second-wave feminism for not recognizing that black women faced different prejudices and stereotypes than white women. bell hooks’ 1982 book, Ain’t I a Woman?, which carries a title that seeks to pla

A liberalism that focuses solely on the individual and on humanity as a whole may fail to see how certain identity groups are disadvantaged. Greater attention to this aspect of identity is warranted, though not to the exclusion of all other concerns.

In this text I will celebrate the use of capital B for “Black”. “Blackness” will maintain lower case b in the interest of making space for the ontological framework that blackness proposes across a cultural, social, political discourse.

Fannie Barrier Williams, whom white women in Chicago had excluded from their club, summed up the difference between the white club movement and the club movement among her people. Black women, she said, had come to realize that … progress includes a great deal more than what is generally meant by the terms culture, education and contact. The club m

While we focused on the fandom that centered on Beyoncé’s music and celebrity, they constructed a culture that was aligned with Beyoncé’s beliefs and ideologies because they—her fans—subscribed to the same beliefs as Beyoncé: women’s empowerment.