摘要：Where black women were once in the vanguard of a political movement for radical change (Combahee Statement, for instance), addressing race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in a simultaneity of oppression and of consciousness of that oppression, challenging and pushing the edges, we can no longer claim that edge if our feminist politics becomes a matter of identity only. The women of the Combahee River Collective was a group of black lesbian feminists of the 1970s, who used their ethnicity to construct a carefully considered analysis of the simultaneity of oppression, a new concept then but one of the earliest theories that fledgling women’s studies students grasp and reiterate easily. They wrote it in 1977 and published it as a chap book. A more cogent theory has lyet to be rendered, which is why it shows up in so many women’s studies anthologies and why we continue to teach it as a foundational theory. It would be difficult to locate a group more committed to the cause of black women and other women of color, yet they were committed to feminism, and the members of the group whom I know still are..
