Bücher von Kathe Sandler

This dissertation explores how younger generations of Black feminists interpret,collaborate with, and engage with the ideas and ideals of their so-called "Second Wave"Black feminist fore-sisters. Many of these women, including Alice Walker, BarbaraSmith, Michele Wallace, bell hooks, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Angela Davis, and JohnnettaCole, remain enormously influential and continue to organize, write, teach, and produceart and scholarship. The late Audre Lorde, the "black, lesbian, warrior, poet, mother"who integrally claimed and celebrated all of her differences is arguably one of theworld's most revered and cited Black feminist theorists in this the 86th anniversary of herbirth. Intergenerational Black feminists-and people of all colors throughout the world-study, celebrate, and teach her words and ideas. Throughout this study, I consider howLorde's ideas are a touchstone for intergenerational Black feminist activism and culturalproduction in the new millennium. My research lies at the intersection of AfricanAmerican feminism, cultural studies, Women of Color feminisms, and Black QueerStudies. I engage with scholarship in the arenas of literary criticism, history, cinema,visual culture, political science, philosophy, sociology, as well as legal scholars of theCritical Race Movement. I also consider my own location within this debate.