Black American Reality and Egyptian Activists

Grange Copeland, the character in Alice Walker's innovative said, "Nobody's as powerful as we make them”. (Kanneh Pp. 346) There is no doubt that racism does live in America, but is it actually so large that it could hold back intelligent, hard working constituents of the very dark community. The response is that the blacks are powerful, but continually seem less warranting than whites.

Black feminism argues that sexism, class oppression and racism are inextricably linked. Forms of feminism that strive to overcome class oppression and sexism, but ignore race can discriminate against many people, including women, through racial prejudice. The Combahee River Collective in 1974 argued that black women's liberation means freedom for everyone, as it would require an end to racism, sexism and class oppression. The theory that evolved out of this movement was belonging with literature of Alice Walker womanism and Egyptian Activists.

Womanists Alice Walker and Egyptian activists said they experienced a different and more intense the oppression of white women. Note the emergence of black feminism after previous movements led by middle-class white women who believe that the largely ignored oppression based on race and class. Patricia Hill Collins defines the feminist Black, Black Feminist Thought (1991), which includes "women who theorize the experiences and ideas shared by ordinary black women that provide a unique angle of vision of an autonomous community and society."

Egyptian activists argue that black women's liberation means freedom for everyone, as it would require an end to racism, sexism and class oppression. There is a long-standing alliance between feminists and postcolonial important that overlaps with transnational feminism and third world feminism, and black feminists. Both have struggled for recognition, not only of men in their own culture, but also from Western feminists.

Black women face the same struggles that white women, however, had to face the problems of diversity at the top of inequality. Black feminist organizations emerged during the decade of 1970 to face many difficulties both faced culture and their adjustment to their vulnerability in it. These women also fought against the repression of the largest movements in which many of its members came.

Black feminist organizations had to overcome three challenges different than any other feminist organization faced. The first challenge faced by these women was to "demonstrate to other black women that feminism is not just for white women." They also had to demand that white women "to share power with them and affirm diversity" and "fight the misogynistic tendencies of Black Nationalism." With all the challenges that these women had to face many Egyptian activists regard to black feminists as "war weary warriors."

The NBFO, the National Black Feminist Organization, founded in 1973. These women are focused on the interplay of prejudices faced by many African American women such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, lesbophobia y. As an active organization NBFO ceased operations in 1977 nationally.

The Combahee River Collective was one of the leading black socialist feminist organizations of all time. First a black feminist and ...