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SUMMARY:'Our “woman talk” was about Marxism and anti-imperialism': Cha
 rting the Thought Worlds of the Black Women’s Movement in Britain - Jade
  Bentil (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:In the early 1970s\, the Black Power Movement in Britain was i
 n a state of peril. Having long been pushed to the sidelines of the moveme
 nt\, Black women activists were in open rebellion. Challenging the patriar
 chal arrangements of Black organising spaces\, they began meeting independ
 ently of the men in their organisations. Forming women’s caucuses in org
 anisations such as the Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Part
 y\, these early study groups were to lay the foundation for the burgeoning
  Black Women’s Movement. This paper maps a cartography of the social\, c
 ultural and intellectual experiments cultivated by Black women’s groups 
 in the 1970s and 1980s. Honing a collective voice\, Black women crafted an
  analysis of the racialised\, gendered and economic dimensions of their su
 bjection in Britain. Focusing on the debates\, sites of contention and kno
 wledge produced by working-class Black women in the second half of the twe
 ntieth century\, this paper illuminates the genealogies of Black women’s
  artistic and intellectual practices and the contributions they made to co
 ntemporary Black feminist thought.\n\n- \n\nJade Bentil is a writer and hi
 storian from South London. She holds a DPhil in History from Merton Colleg
 e\, the University of Oxford. Situated in Black feminist thought\, her sch
 olarship uses oral history methodologies to centre the experiences of Blac
 k women of African and Caribbean descent in Britain and their long histori
 es of rebellion. For her doctoral scholarship on the Black Women’s movem
 ent\, Jade was awarded the 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship from th
 e North American Conference on British Studies\, the 2023 Justin Champion 
 Fellowship in Black British History from the Institute of Historical Resea
 rch\, and the 2024 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Award from the Association of B
 lack Women Historians. Jade’s debut book\, REBEL CITIZEN\, uses oral his
 tory interviews to explore the lived experiences of Black women who migrat
 ed to Britain following the Second World War and is forthcoming from Allen
  Lane. Her debut monograph\, an oral history of the Black Women’s moveme
 nt\, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Jade is currently teachi
 ng a course on Black British Feminism as part of the MSt in Women's\, Gend
 er and Sexuality Studies at Oxford.\nSpeakers:\nJade Bentil (University of
  Oxford)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (Schwarzman Centre for the Humaniti
 es\, Seminar Room 63\, Ground Floor)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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