Book, And am I not a woman?: black women and feminism[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "The first book by black writer and activist bell hooks. A classic of feminist theory, And I Am Not a Woman? has become mandatory reading for people interested in issues related to black womanhood and the construction of a world without sexist and racial oppression . Sojourner Truth, a black woman who had been enslaved and became a speaker after being freed in 1827, denounced, in 1851, at the Women's Convention - in the speech that became known as “Ain't I a Woman” - that the activism of suffragettes and rich white abolitionists excluded black and poor women. Based on Truth's speech, which gives the book its title, hooks discusses the racism and sexism present in the civil rights and feminist movements, from suffrage to the 1970s. In addition to examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black women, the sexism of white and black men, racism among feminists, stereotypes attributed to black women, the imperialism of patriarchy and the involvement of black women with feminism, hooks aims to move our thinking beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is a revolutionary work, an essential book, to be read by all people who fight to make the world a place free from oppression based on race, color, class and gender. "