masculinist black nationalism

wahneema lubiano wah at acpub.duke.edu
Fri Jan 15 17:48:07 PST 1999


At 04:30 AM 1/15/99 -0500, Rakesh wrote:
>I hear that Wahneema has been offering criticisms of black nationalism for
>its masculinism. I would like to offer criticism here of masculinist black
>nationalism's shouting down free and universal access to birth control for
>black women as a genocidal plot. I don't know if Wahneema has commented on
>this. I missed the posts from yesterday.
>

No, I haven't commented on these things on this list.

The tradition of people (among them black feminists), both within and outside of circles understood to be black nationalist in some way, who have been critical of various black nationalisms' hetero- sexism and class-blindness, is a long and honorable one. While I join in this criticism, the particular nuance that I've insisted on in my postings thus far to this list, is that much of what is considered and criticized as "black nationalism" moves across terrain too broad and complicated to be easily covered by a discussion of Malcolm X and/or Farrakhan and/or the NOI.

Wahneema



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