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The American Black Male: A Benchmark for Gender Studies
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The American Black Male: A Benchmark for Gender Studies.
by Kerry Lee Riley
The field of gender studies has long been understood as the articulation of oppression as experienced by women. Via penetrating analyses of oppressive patriarchal hegemonies, women have defined and redefined their evolving identities in the midst of ambiguous gender shifts and psycho-political negotiations. In the 1970s, a movement emerged from these gender interactions known as "feminism." Unfortunately, this movement tended to exclude African-American women who sought empowerment for the overthrow of both sexism and racism and they established their own movement of "womanism." Nevertheless, a …
