Demita Frazier

Demita Frazier is a black feminist, writer, teacher, and activist.[1] She is a founding member of the Combahee River Collective.[2] Currently, Frazier works as a professional mentor/coach.[1]

Demita Frazier

Combahee River Collective

The Combahee River Collective laid the foundation that broadened the Black feminism perspective to argue that sexism, racism, and racial oppression intersect one another.[1] Demita Frazier was part of the Combahee River Collective, founding the organization in 1974.[1] The group's name came from the heroic actions of Harriet Tubman, who solely led a campaign that freed more than 750 slaves at South Carolina's Combahee River in 1863.[1] The CRC's overall mission was to inform the mass media and bring attention to the conditions of African-American women. They got involved in an initiative to stop African, African American, and Puerto-Rican women from being sterilized against their wills. The Combahee River Collective disbanded in 1980 and Frazier wrote the group's final statement, alongside Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith.[3] Their statement was an important contribution to the concept in critical theory of identity politics.[4]

References
  1. "Black, Feminist, Revolutionary: Remembering the Combahee River Collective - EBONY". www.ebony.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. Collier-Thomas, Bettye., Franklin, V. P. (Vincent P.), 1947-. New York: New York University Press. 2001. ISBN 0814716024. OCLC 46500340.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology. Marable, Manning, Mullings, Leith. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2003. ISBN 084768346X. OCLC 63810087.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (ed) (2017). How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket. ISBN 9781608468553. OCLC 975027867.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)


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