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After years of participating in the American Women’s movement, black American women felt the need to start a separate black feminist group. In 1973, The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was formed. Since then, many white and black feminist groups have worked separately to achieve primarily the same goal. Why did black feminists feel the need to form their own group? Differences in their oppression, beliefs, and history from white American women led black American women to want to come together with their same background, in order to make a stronger stand against a sexist-racists government.
White American women have, for years, had to battle against a sexist political system of white male rule. However, it is black American women who are oppressed both racially and sexually. In “Reflections on the Black Women’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” Angela Davis points out that black women activists, throughout time, have always shared an awareness of how, as an adversary to white male rule, that their sexual identity combined with their racial identity makes their life situations and political struggles unique. ... “We believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity…” While white feminists are predominately separatists, black feminists feel a connection with black men in a struggle against racism, in addition to white women in the struggle against sexism. For example, black American women have also been connected with the movements for black liberation, such as the civil rights and the Black Panthers. This unique oppression is what leads black feminist groups to try and “develop a politics that (is) antiracist, unlike those of white women, and anti-sexist, unlike those of white and black men.
Why are black feminists facing such difficulties in their movement, while the white women’s movement seems to be growing stronger and steadier?
Approximate Word count = 1470
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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