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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON ARTICULATIONS OF RACE AND GENDER IN BLACK WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Western Michigan University

Using Black women's autobiographies published between 1960 and 1975, this article examines how the oppositional discourses of the civil rights and women's movements influence articulations of gender and race. Discursive analysis of the autobiographies reveals a crucial distinction between articulations of racist and sexist experiences and articulations of sociohistorical structures of sexism and racism. Insofar as social movement discourse bridges individual experience with structural explanations of experience, the available discourses on gender and race from the civil rights and women's movements become pivotal. Finally, Black feminist concerns over hegemonic domination are addressed.

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