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How We Get Free

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"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement
  • 05 December 2017
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The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Guardian, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Ms., International Socialist Review, and other publications. Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

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Price: $16.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: 05 December 2017
Trim Size: 5.50 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9781608468553
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / African American & Black, Political ideologies and movements, History of the Americas
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“This new collection of a four-decades-old text reminds us that black women have long known that America’s destiny is inseparable from how it treats them and the nation ignores this truth at its peril.”
—The New York Review of Books

“A striking collection that should be immediately added to the Black feminist canon.”
—Bitch Media

“An essential book for any feminist library.”
—Library Journal

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, the Guardian, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Ms., International Socialist Review, and other publications. Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University.