“Toni Cade Bambara took up the politics of revolution, family, and knowledge production with decidedly less ambivalence than Murray. Her 1970 collection of essays, poetry, and cultural criticism, BLACK WOMAN, offered a resounding response to the cultural and intellectual discombobulation that had framed the works of Pierce and Cruse.”
“Bambara and her colleagues considered a range of issues relevant to Black women’s lives, turning them inside out, interrogating their relevance, discarding the ideas that were not useful and offering a new set of conceptual frames for thinking and writing about Black women’s lives and organizing for black liberation. Bambara and her comrades did not see Black women’s lives through the framework of a problem. Rather like Cooper, they looked at Black women’s lives and their embodied experience as a space of possibility.”
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Dr. Brittney Cooper in BEYOND RESPECTABILITY speaking on THE BLACK WOMAN/An Anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara.
I love when it feels like my books are talking to each other. When one book references another to make a point more salient and precise. This conversation on the range and scope of Black women intellectuals is especially rich and potent. 🤓💚
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