Category Archives: Fatima

Toni Morrison: Woman in Black

The Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison speaks on challenges of being a female writer and why she insists on labeling herself as ‘woman in black’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijod6HAxSSg  

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Women Empowered Video

Women Empowered This a short video featuring a number of prominent black women of the 20th century who you will likely recognize speaking on their experiences as black women and how they impacted their respective industries. Includes: Toni Morrison, Coretta … Continue reading

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Review of In Search of…

This is scholarly review of Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers Gardens” by Alice Walker, reviewed by Opal Moore. It will give you a lot of insight on what the book is about and  how Alice Walker organizes and … Continue reading

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Combahee River Collective Statement

This is a link to a document that is considered to be amongst the most important in regards to the black feminist movement. It was written by members of the Combahee River Collective, an organization for Black feminist lesbians. The … Continue reading

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An Anthology

This is a short essay written by Alice Walker that was included in an anthology on black literary criticisms titled Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Some of the prominent … Continue reading

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What Manner of Woman (Short Documentary)

Here is a short documentary found on Youtube that discusses elements of womanism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlc6L1Z9-k  

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Womanist: Alice Walker

Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Copyright 1983. WOMANIST 1. From womanish.  (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.)  A black feminist or feminist of color.  From the black folk expression of … Continue reading

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#FEMEN

I thought this article was interesting since we happened to discuss this in class recently and it relates to my topic in the sense that it highlights some key failures of white feminist movements to be truly inclusive. http://www.newstatesman.com/bim-adewunmi/2013/04/inconsistency-femens-imperialist-one-size-fits-all-attitude

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Struggling with Klor de Alva

Klor de Alva argues that the native Americans suffered a devastating decline in their population due to its contact with the colonial Europe (246). However, “as a consequence of the subordinate condition attendant on this state of dis-empowerment, the greater part of the … Continue reading

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partial cultural experience

For our discussion, we decided to focus on Bhabha’s argument on the “partial culture” and the varieties of subcultures within a supposed one cultural group. Tishara and I agreed with Homi Bhabha’s argument that a “partial culture” that we experience … Continue reading

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