MALCOLM X: THE CONFERENCE

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Black Women and Black Liberation : Fighting Oppression and Building Unity

Online Reference : Malcolm X : Research site
Reparations
 

Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Autobiography (pay particular attention to his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his daughters)

Discussion Questions

1. Who are these women? Claudia Jones, Ruby Doris Robinson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Anna Cooper, Lucy Parsons, Queen Nzinga, Madame Walker
2. Discuss the case of Assata Shakur and why she is forced to live in exile in Cuba?
3. Discuss the nature of triple oppression faced by Black women: race, class, and gender.
4. What is the role of Feminism in the Black liberation movement?


Additional Reading  

1. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990, 2000)

2. Barbara Omolade, The Rising Soul of African American Women (1994)

3. Dorothy Roberts, Killing The Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997)

4. Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of The  American Woman Novelist (1987)

5. Leith Mullings, On Our Own Terms: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of African American Women (1997)
 

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