“Black women’s experiences as bloodmothers, othermothers, and community othermothers reveal that the mythical norm of a heterosexual married couple, nuclear family with a nonworking spouse and a husband earning a “family wage” is far from being natural, universal, and preferred but instead is deeply embedded in specific race and class formations.”
...[D]omination operates by seducing, pressuring, or forcing African-American women and members of subordinated groups to replace individual and cultural ways of knowing with the dominant group's specialized thought.
As a result, suggests Audre Lorde,
"the true focus of revolutionary change
is never
merely the oppressive situations
which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor
which is planted
deep
within each of us."
Or as Toni Cade Bambara succinctly states, "revolution begins with the self, in the self."
...[D]omination operates by seducing, pressuring, or forcing African-American women and members of subordinated groups to replace individual and cultural ways of knowing with the dominant group's specialized thought.
As a result, suggests Audre Lorde,
"the true focus of revolutionary change
is never
merely the oppressive situations
which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor
which is planted
deep
within each of us."
Or as Toni Cade Bambara succinctly states, "revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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