Black feminist movement

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anti-racist movement feminist movement intellectual movement social movement

The Black feminist movement is a social and intellectual movement that centers the intersecting struggles against racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression faced by Black women, advocating for their political, economic, and cultural liberation.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Black feminism	18
Black feminist movement canonical	2
Black feminist thought	1

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Target entity: Black feminist movement
Context triple: [Black Power movement, influenced, Black feminist movement]

A. Black Power movement
The Black Power movement was a mid-20th-century Black American political and cultural movement that emphasized racial pride, self-determination, and resistance to systemic oppression.
B. Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement was a 1960s–1970s African American artistic and literary movement that promoted Black cultural pride, political empowerment, and experimental forms in poetry, theater, visual arts, and music.
C. American civil rights movement
The American civil rights movement was a mid-20th-century mass social and political campaign, prominently led by figures like Martin Luther King Jr., that sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and secure equal rights under the law.
D. women's suffrage movement
The women's suffrage movement was a long-running social and political campaign that fought to secure women's legal right to vote and expand their participation in democratic life.
E. Asian American movement
The Asian American movement was a grassroots social and political movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, uniting diverse Asian ethnic groups in the United States to fight racism, demand civil rights, and build a shared Asian American identity.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Black feminist movement
Target entity description: The Black feminist movement is a social and intellectual movement that centers the intersecting struggles against racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression faced by Black women, advocating for their political, economic, and cultural liberation.

A. Black Power movement
The Black Power movement was a mid-20th-century Black American political and cultural movement that emphasized racial pride, self-determination, and resistance to systemic oppression.
B. Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement was a 1960s–1970s African American artistic and literary movement that promoted Black cultural pride, political empowerment, and experimental forms in poetry, theater, visual arts, and music.
C. American civil rights movement
The American civil rights movement was a mid-20th-century mass social and political campaign, prominently led by figures like Martin Luther King Jr., that sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and secure equal rights under the law.
D. women's suffrage movement
The women's suffrage movement was a long-running social and political campaign that fought to secure women's legal right to vote and expand their participation in democratic life.
E. Asian American movement
The Asian American movement was a grassroots social and political movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, uniting diverse Asian ethnic groups in the United States to fight racism, demand civil rights, and build a shared Asian American identity.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anti-racist movement ⓘ feminist movement ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
addresses	labor exploitation of Black women ⓘ police violence against Black women ⓘ representation of Black women in media ⓘ reproductive justice ⓘ sexual violence against Black women ⓘ
aimsFor	cultural liberation of Black women ⓘ economic liberation of Black women ⓘ political liberation of Black women ⓘ
articulatedBy	Combahee River Collective ⓘ
articulatedInDocument	Combahee River Collective Statement ⓘ
associatedConcept	Black feminist thought ⓘ identity politics ⓘ intersectionality ⓘ matrix of domination ⓘ misogynoir ⓘ womanism ⓘ
critiques	Black nationalist movements’ sexism ⓘ mainstream white feminism ⓘ
developedConcept	intersectionality ⓘ
emergedIn	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
emergedInPeriod	1970s ⓘ late 1960s ⓘ
focusesOn	Black women ⓘ interlocking systems of oppression ⓘ intersection of racism and sexism ⓘ
influencedBy	Black women’s liberation movement ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: civil rights movement second-wave feminism ⓘ
influences	contemporary intersectional feminism ⓘ critical race theory ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ gender studies ⓘ
keyFigure	Angela Davis ⓘ Audre Lorde ⓘ Barbara Smith ⓘ Patricia Hill Collins ⓘ surface form: Beverly Guy-Sheftall Kimberlé Crenshaw ⓘ Moya Bailey ⓘ Patricia Hill Collins ⓘ bell hooks ⓘ
opposes	classism ⓘ heterosexism ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ racism ⓘ sexism ⓘ white supremacy ⓘ

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