Matrix of Domination_Short_Paper-School Work

Black feminist thought talks about the race, class and gender oppression and need of a Humanist vision of the community to create new possibilities of empowering the Afrocentric feminist knowledge. She has said that a black female is not just a black, not just a female or is from low family income, it could be all of them. A black female has learned to confront for being herself. In her view, Eurocentric masculinist thought to serve the interest of the Eurocentric man. She says white man worldview promotes white women’s subordination. In her writings, Black women’s thought speaks as emerging power as agents of knowledge/plays in empowering oppressed people. Black feminist thought proposes two essential contributions to furthering social relation of domination and resistance. A group survival in black women’s thought suggests the vision of a community that stands in disagreement to the level in the leading culture.

Therefore, black women can be one way or the other dominated in the society due to her being of female, being black, most times being from a poor socioeconomic status. Placing an African and other excluded women in the center of the analysis opens a concept of penalty and privilege for oppressed and oppressor.  This does not mean that race, class, and gender are interchangeable. “By emphasizing the power of self-definition and the necessity of a free mind, Black feminist thought speaks to the importance African-American women thinkers place on consciousness as a sphere of freedom”(Patricia Hill Collins). In addition to what is dominated against, race, gender, and social class, black feminist thought emphasizes three levels of dominations and potential sites of resistance.

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Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2017, from http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html