Black Feminism


Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Women, Race & Class
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
All About Love: New Visions
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Bad Feminist
Assata: An Autobiography
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Freeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinAbolition for the People by Colin KaepernickIn the Wake by Christina SharpeBlack, White, and in Color by Hortense SpillersAt the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Black Studies
102 books — 10 voters
The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstMy Life and Times by Emerson Littlefield
Second Wave Feminism
147 books — 69 voters

A Bug, A Slug, and a Ladybug by Julian KlazkinMy Life and Times by Emerson LittlefieldThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksAsking for It by Kate Harding
Third-Wave Feminism
171 books — 83 voters


Mikki Kendall
Women of color declaring to white women, I'm not here to clean up your mess, carry your spear, hold your hand, or cheer you on while I suffer in silence. I'm not here to raise your children, assuage your guilt, build your platforms, or fight your battles. I'm here for my community because no one else will stand up for us but us ...more
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Angela Y. Davis
As many times as I’ve spoken during Black History Month, I never tire of urging people to remember that it wasn’t a single individual or two who created that movement, that, as a matter of fact, it was largely women within collective contexts, Black women, poor Black women who were maids, washerwomen, and cooks. These were the people who collectively refused to ride the bus.
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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