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51 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (California: The Crossing Press, 1984) 143.
52 Lorde 137.
53 Lorde 137.
54 This is absolutely not to suggest that the men of these movements or white
feminists are not bound by the same issues. I here am emphasizing the self-awareness
that some black women and Chicanas have exhibited in this area.
Their awareness is precisely what sets their writing and activism a part from
either racial/ethnic nationalist movements or (white) feminism.
55 Crenshaw’s theory comes after the end of the eras presented in this dissertation
however it is important to note that just because the women of the Black arts and
Chicano movements did not name “intersectionality” does not mean that they
weren’t engaging in the practice. Indeed, one may argue that Crenshaw is
indebted to the work of these earlier scholars and writers for laying the
groundwork for what would become “intersectionality.”
56 See Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex:
A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and
Anti-Racist Politics,” Feminist Legal Theory, ed. D. K. Weisberg (Philadelphia:
Temple UP, 1989) 57-81.
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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| Title | Page 148 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 143 51 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (California: The Crossing Press, 1984) 143. 52 Lorde 137. 53 Lorde 137. 54 This is absolutely not to suggest that the men of these movements or white feminists are not bound by the same issues. I here am emphasizing the self-awareness that some black women and Chicanas have exhibited in this area. Their awareness is precisely what sets their writing and activism a part from either racial/ethnic nationalist movements or (white) feminism. 55 Crenshaw’s theory comes after the end of the eras presented in this dissertation however it is important to note that just because the women of the Black arts and Chicano movements did not name “intersectionality” does not mean that they weren’t engaging in the practice. Indeed, one may argue that Crenshaw is indebted to the work of these earlier scholars and writers for laying the groundwork for what would become “intersectionality.” 56 See Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics,” Feminist Legal Theory, ed. D. K. Weisberg (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989) 57-81. |
