Watch the full conversation with Barbara and Robin, as well as a discussion debate between Barbara, Robin, and Norman Finklestein here: / norman-barbara-d-80041560
Barbara Smith shares with Katie and Professor Robin G Kelly how she and her cohort of radical, Black lesbians came up with the term “Identity Politics.”
Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women’s literary tradition and to build Black women’s studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s. She has edited three major collections about Black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women’s Issue (with Lorraine Bethel, 1979); All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982); and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983 She was cofounder and publisher until 1995 of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She is the 2022-23—Hess Scholar-in-Residence, Brooklyn College.
Link to "There's a Lot More That Needs to Be Done" an interview with Barbara Smith: https://www.thedriftmag.com/theres-a-...
Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. His essays have appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, Metropolis, Black Music Research Journal, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor.
Barbara Smith, Albany, New York, August 1987. Credit: Photo by Robert Giard © Jonathan Silin courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library.
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