BLACK MARXISM: BLACK WOMEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

Abstract

This article sought to present the black radical tradition in the United States and the contributions of black women to strengthen the debate on race, class and gender in the country. We investigated the contributions of black theorists and activists in the construction of struggles for racial and gender equality within the processes of struggles, both for the Civil Rights movement and for the Communist. We present an organization process that took place in a period of intense persecution of Marxist and black militants by the state. We also seek to reflect on the black Marxism, as well as its theoretical basis, which is anchored in black experiences since enslavement, however seeking to present how these thinkers developed an analysis that unifies the debates of race and class. We also bring the contributions of black women Marxists, and as such they solidified a thought centered on the idea of ​​“triple oppression” that later it would be developed by feminist theory. To weave this picture we use the historiography centered on rescuing the memory of these revolutionaries, we also use autobiographies and essays of the two intellectuals mentioned to elaborate a framework of approximations between productions regarding the participation of black women in the epistemological construction and politics of the American radical tradition between the decades of 1950-1980.