Black Feminism is a Necessity | Crenshaw & Cohen

This video pertains to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s writings about the condition of black women and intersectional feminism and Cathy Cohen’s piece about queer politics. As mentioned in this video clip (and as we did in class), black women stand at a unique intersection in which they fall into two distinct subsets of minority: black and female. Thusly, […]

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Media bell hooks mentions in “The Oppositional Gaze”

Representations of Sapphire in Amos ‘n’ Andy   On filmmaker Oscar Micheaux   Trailer for Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959)    Trailer for Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It   Fan-made Feminist Trailer for Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It   On Hattie McDaniel   On Lena Horne   Julie Dash’s Illusions (1982)

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