Black feminism

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Black feminism is a branch of feminism that emerged in response to the unique social and political forces Black women face as a collective. These forces—racism and sexism together—shape their lived experience and their intersectional identity. Black feminist thought centers the experiences of Black women, and “aims to empower African-American women within the context of injustice sustained by intersecting oppressions." According to Black feminism, race, gender, and class discrimination are all aspects of the same system of hierarchy, which bell hooks calls the "imperialist white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy"; due to their inter-dependency, they combine to create something more than experiencing racism and sexism independently. The experience of being a Black woman, according to the theory, cannot then be grasped in terms of being Black or of being a woman but must be illuminated via intersectionality, a term coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. This idea corresponds...

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