Paula Giddings - When and Where I Enter (1984)

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For despite the range and significance of our history, we have been perceived as token women in Black texts and as token Blacks in feminist ones.

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Black women survived the rigors of slavery to demand the rights of their race and of their sex. They rose above the most demeaning forms of labor and demanded to be called by their last names. Black women forged humane communities out of rough settlements. They converted the rock of double oppression into a steppings tone.

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