Audre Lorde y Patricia Hill Collins. Aportaciones para entender el Black feminism, el racismo y su imbricación con otras opresiones

Abstract

Black Feminism is a theoretical and political thought that, within feminism, proposes to understand gender oppression in relation with other op-pressions such as racism and classism. In this article I propose a brief review of the contributions of two Black women, Audre Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins, who contributed to this movement with considerations on the alliance between the personal and the political, the differences between women, the use of anger, the standpoint, the status of outsider within and the importance of self-definition and self-determination. Remembering the foundations and proposi-tions of Black Feminism is of utmost importance for sociological and anthro-pological studies in Latin America, since it invites us to study oppressions in an imbricated and situated way; and opens an epistemological debate about the most accurate and adapted tools to apprehend these realities.