Am I not a woman?

Black Women and Feminism

"Am I not a woman?" is the question that Sojourner Truth, a former slave, asked in 1851 during a famous speech, challenging feminists and abolitionists on the various oppressions suffered by black women: oppressions of class, race, and sex. Heir to this gesture, bell hooks describes in this book published in 1981 in the United States the processes of marginalization of black women. She delivers an uncompromising critique of white feminisms, black liberation movements, and their difficulty in taking into account intersecting oppressions.

A major book on “Black Feminism”, a necessary tool for everyone at a time when, in France, a new generation of Afrofeminists is speaking out.