Instead, it’s meant to be read by anyone who claims they are a feminist, or anyone who wants to be a feminist. Hood Feminism is meant to be read by not just scholars and college-educated individuals. Feminism is the work that you do, and the people you do it for who matter more than anything else” (xiii). It isn’t a matter of saying the right words at the right time. Expanding upon Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1989 “ Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” in which the famed scholar, lawyer, and activist, coined the term “intersectional,” Kendall dives into today’s feminist movement to critique its focus on white women and, as a result, its perpetuation of white supremacy.įrom the start, Kendall sets up the accessibility of the text, as “the hood taught me that feminism isn’t just academic theory. “It’s not going to be a comfortable read, but it’s going to be an opportunity to learn for those who are willing to do the hard work,” Kendall writes in the introduction (Kendall, xv). Released in February 2020, Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot (Viking, 2020) quickly became a lauded read not just for intersectional feminists, but for all individuals.
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