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Eurocentrism (New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2000); Asante, Afrocentricity
(New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2003). See also Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine
Richardson eds., Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to
Contemporary Innovations (New York: Routledge, 2003).
17 Franz Fanon, trans. Constance Farrington. The Wretched of the Earth: A Negro
Psychoanalyst’s Study of the Problems of Racism & Colonialism in the World
Today (New York: Grove Press, 1966) 187.
18 Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
(Charlottesville & London: University Press of Virginia, 1995) 11-12.
19 See Kimberle Crenshaw. “Race, Reform and Retrenchment: Transformation
and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law,” Harvard Law Review Vol. 101,
No. 7 (May, 1988): 1331-1387.
20 Amiri Baraka, “Nationalism Vs PimpArt” Black Writers in America: A
Comprehensive Anthology ed. Barksdale & Kinnamon (New York: Prentice
Hall, 1997) 760 (italics his).
21 Amiri Baraka, “Black Art,” The Black Poets ed. Dudley Randall (New York:
Bantam, 1971) 223.
22 Much has been written about black women be subjected to the sexual advances
of white men, both during slavery and beyond. These relationships have most
often been characterized as unequal, with white men forcing black women to
acquiesce to their will. Traditionally, black men have not had the power to stop
the rape of their wives, daughters and mothers and the resentment they have felt
is most likely part of Baraka’s poem. Powerless to lash out against the white
men, he may be transferring his anger to the product of the union, namely the
mulatto offspring. It is crucial that he is only angry at mulatto women; mixed-race
men do not raise as much ire. Thus, there is a complicated combination of
racial animosity and misogyny being expressed. One wonders if his personal life
is also in evidence here. Baraka (prior to the Black Arts Movement, when he
was known as LeRoi Jones) was married to and had children with a white
woman. As he began to embrace Black Power politics, he divorced his wife and
left her with the children. It is beyond the scope of this dissertation to
psychologically analyze Baraka’s motives but certainly this poem presents some
interesting questions about his motives.
23 This, in my opinion, is one of the major failings of the Black Power Movement
and black nationalism more generally. The exclusion of mixed-race people from
Object Description
| Title | "As shelters against the cold": women writers of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965-1978 |
| Author | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Author email | uryder@usc.edu; uryder@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-27 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 27 October 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-10-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George J. Johnson, Dana |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the work of women writers in the Black Arts and Chicano movements during the years 1965-1978. I argue that understanding the intersectional nature of the women's experiences is crucial for understanding their literary output. Further, I argue that Chicanas and African American women of this era challenged homogenous notions of community and racial identity and that we can trace the development of the Third World feminism and multiculturalism that came to the fore in the 1980s to this earlier period. Thus, this study also impacts the way we conceptualize identity formation and the creation of the literary canon. Investigating the ways in which these women integrated nationalist and feminist rhetoric and activism in their work is crucial for a full understanding of this critical period in U.S. history. At stake is an understanding of how Chicana and African American women in the United States have formed identities and communities; struggled for liberation and equality; and become part of the U.S. literary canon. |
| Keyword | Black Power; Black Arts movement; Chicano movement; civil rights; racial identity formation; womanism; borderlands theory; feminism; Third World feminism; nationalism; intersectionality |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1965/1978 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1698 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Ryder-2415 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ryder-2415.pdf |
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| Full text | 140 Eurocentrism (New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2000); Asante, Afrocentricity (New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2003). See also Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine Richardson eds., Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (New York: Routledge, 2003). 17 Franz Fanon, trans. Constance Farrington. The Wretched of the Earth: A Negro Psychoanalyst’s Study of the Problems of Racism & Colonialism in the World Today (New York: Grove Press, 1966) 187. 18 Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Charlottesville & London: University Press of Virginia, 1995) 11-12. 19 See Kimberle Crenshaw. “Race, Reform and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law,” Harvard Law Review Vol. 101, No. 7 (May, 1988): 1331-1387. 20 Amiri Baraka, “Nationalism Vs PimpArt” Black Writers in America: A Comprehensive Anthology ed. Barksdale & Kinnamon (New York: Prentice Hall, 1997) 760 (italics his). 21 Amiri Baraka, “Black Art,” The Black Poets ed. Dudley Randall (New York: Bantam, 1971) 223. 22 Much has been written about black women be subjected to the sexual advances of white men, both during slavery and beyond. These relationships have most often been characterized as unequal, with white men forcing black women to acquiesce to their will. Traditionally, black men have not had the power to stop the rape of their wives, daughters and mothers and the resentment they have felt is most likely part of Baraka’s poem. Powerless to lash out against the white men, he may be transferring his anger to the product of the union, namely the mulatto offspring. It is crucial that he is only angry at mulatto women; mixed-race men do not raise as much ire. Thus, there is a complicated combination of racial animosity and misogyny being expressed. One wonders if his personal life is also in evidence here. Baraka (prior to the Black Arts Movement, when he was known as LeRoi Jones) was married to and had children with a white woman. As he began to embrace Black Power politics, he divorced his wife and left her with the children. It is beyond the scope of this dissertation to psychologically analyze Baraka’s motives but certainly this poem presents some interesting questions about his motives. 23 This, in my opinion, is one of the major failings of the Black Power Movement and black nationalism more generally. The exclusion of mixed-race people from |
