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How We Get Free — Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

$19.95

Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction

“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement

The Combahee River Collective, a pathbreaking group of radical Black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members and contemporary activists reflect on the organization’s contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.

This expanded second edition features a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis.

Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction

“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.”
—Combahee River Collective Statement

The Combahee River Collective, a pathbreaking group of radical Black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members and contemporary activists reflect on the organization’s contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.

This expanded second edition features a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Taylor’s writing and scholarship engage issues of contemporary Black politics, the history of Black social movements and Black radicalism, and issues concerning public policy, race and racial inequality. Taylor is author of Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is also author of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective which won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction. In 2021, Taylor was selected as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She has been a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a contributing writer for The New Yorker.