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Coalition to Community

By Barbara Ransby

Second-wave feminism always had to grapple with questions of inclusion, democracy and power. The writings of black feminists from bell hooks to Barbara Smith lamented the condescending, patronizing and sometimes outright racist treatment they experienced in predominately white feminist circles in the ’70s. Even when racism was not there on an interpersonal level, there was a political struggle to stretch the… return to article

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