“I think the future of black feminism will either help to change the world or how we deal with the end of the world as we know it. And maybe these two things aren’t antithetical.”
scholar whose work focuses on the intersections of history, popular culture and representations of women of African descent.
It’s an interesting time, yet it feels like the end of an era in some ways now that we’re losing so many great thinkers and writers, some of whom never identified themselves as black feminists, but those of us who are black feminists certainly claim them as part of our intellectual genealogy. Those women who were beginning to publish in the 1970s, who really created a space for us, changed the way we thought about ourselves as black women.
What I liked about it is how you really create this trifecta of these different women artists: Ann Petry the writer, Mary Lou Williams the jazz pianist and Pearl Primus the dancer. Yes. We always had an institute. Well, since 1993 we had an institute. We still have the institute, but now we have the department. It’s about 50 years late but it’s there. And luckily, we didn’t have to start from ground zero because we have a substantial faculty already in the field, and many of us put half of our lines in the new department.
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