AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES

Summary/Abstract: On the one hand, this article approaches a theoretical survey of the Black feminist ideas which focus on unitary Black women experience and thus, on the importance of heritage, or of the past, as we may notice in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use”. On the other hand, the paper tries to shape the opinions of more recent Black feminist works developing thoughts on the difference within African-American women, theories on lesbianism and “coming out of the closet”. Both directions offer a double perspective on Black women’s oppression; one comes from the white hegemony (a racial oppression) and the other one deals with man/woman, respectively superiority/inferiority relationship (sexual oppression). The latter direction might be discussed both from the perspective of the white male society and from within the Black community point of view since domestic violence in Black families is associated to the way through manliness can be measured.

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