black feminism

capitalism

• economic & political system in which a country’s resources, services, & industry are controlled by private owners for profit

• capital - wealth in the form of money or other assets

• capital owners (bourgeoisie) - those who own land, businesses or other properties in which capital can be produced

• workers (proletariat) - those whose labor produces capital for capital owners

protecting capital

• success - constant growth of capital

• failure - stagnation or reduction

socialism

• an economic & political philosophy which sees natural resources & industry controlled by the public, state or workers

• democratic socialism - an economic & political system which utilizes democracy to maintain a publicly owned economy & robust social services

diaspora

• movement or forced removal of a ppl away from an established or ancestral homeland

trans atlantic slave trade

• propped up economy of south & became embedded in their institutions

history of the feminist movement

• 3 waves

emergence of black feminism

• out of 2nd wave as a combined anti-racist & anti-sexist position developed to address heterosexism & economic oppression under capitalism

• utilizes intersectional lens

• liberation of black women, liberate all ppl oppressed under capitalism

patricia collins - matrix of domination

• macro-level theory examining how race, class, and gender overlap & interact w larger systems to shape our social positions & reinforce systems of oppression

• structural - organizes oppression in society - slavery, segregation

• disciplinary - organizational practices of institutions - black women treated as experts on only race & gender