Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump by Duchess Harris

Author:Duchess Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319954561
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2.facilitating open and honest communication and positive confrontation (as opposed to negative squabbling);

3.enabling women to deal with personal prejudices;

4.raising the feminist consciousness of all Black women.

The NBFO developed a CR strategy that was intended to reach out to Black women and educate them about feminism. They stressed that the number of members of their organization was not as important as the quality of those members; a small and effective organization, they reasoned, is better than a large and ineffective one. The organization also stressed the need to include marginalized groups, such as lesbians and incarcerated women, as part of their target audiences. This approach was very different from that of NOW , which clearly had other priorities. The women of the NBFO valued action on a more personal and practical level, rather than on a mainstream political structural level. Perhaps the women of the NBFO thought that they lacked appropriate access to those political arenas, or perhaps they saw these changes as having a more direct effect on Black women in the USA than working within the system. Whatever their reasoning, the effect was the creation of an organization that filled a specific need. Unfortunately, the unique approach and organization of the NBFO could not be sustained. After six years, the organization disintegrated. According to Michele Wallace , the NBFO “got bogged down in an array of ideological disputes” and “action became unthinkable.” Wallace also saw how “women who had initiative and spirit usually attended one meeting, were turned off by the hopelessness of ever getting anything accomplished, and never returned again.” These types of problems were in no way unique to Black feminist organizing, but they did impact Black feminists’ successes considerably. Black feminists continued organizing in an effort to overcome such problems. The CRC was one such effort.

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