his paper is not based on fieldwork, but on ethnographic data on the subject using descriptive data collected by anthropologists and social scientists. The thesis of the paper is that Black feminism is a force that grew out of the need of Black women to empower themselves and escape the second class status they had as women, and specifically as Black women from the perspective of a male dominated, primarily white society. The paper argues that as a socio-cultural category, Black feminism is separate from both the second wave traditional Women's Movement and Black liberation movement. Black women were overlooked twi
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