BLACK FEMINIST THEORIES: Transnational Approaches

435pp., illus., paperback, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2026

ISBN: 9781350446007

This collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across a diverse range of continents and perspectives, and includes new work alongside canonical essays, as well as vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, and creative work.

“... a magnificent compilation of Black feminist poetry, fiction, prose and artwork. Taken together, the contributors illuminate the creative eruption of Black feminist work at multiple junctures across time and place, challenging US-Centric hegemony and revealing Black Feminisms to be complex, transnational discourses that emerge from the complex and shifting genealogies of Black women's lives. Essential reading for all those interested in how the world is changed by the radical epistemic undercurrents emerging at the intersections of oppression, the Handbook provides a powerful and capacious archive of resistance that challenges us to think and to teach more expansively about liberatory praxis and the meaning of diaspora. It offers a powerful and welcome resource for transdisciplinary teachers and researchers in African and diaspora studies, feminist, gender and women's studies, and across the humanities and social science disciplines.” Amina Mama, Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, University of California, Davis

“... a ground breaking, creative, provocative, transgressive, multi-genre anthology that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Black feminist studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and African diaspora studies. The editors' pioneering approach to the under researched subject of transnational Black feminisms is without parallel and stunning in its depth and breadth. Their inclusion of art, theory, poetry, essays, manifestos, speeches and interviews, underscores the significant and far-reaching impact of Black feminist knowledge production historically and around the globe.” Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Comparative Women's Studies, Spelman College, and Founding Director of its Women's Research and Resource Center

Carole Boyce-Davies is Chair and Professor of African Diaspora Literatures at Howard University and Professor Emerita of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University.

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is co-founder and publishing director of Cassava Republic Press and an independent scholar based between Nigeria and the UK.

Janell Hobson is a Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Angelique V. Nixon is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Christen A. Smith is Professor of Anthropology and Black Studies at Yale University.