Dayo Gore
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Dayo Gore is an African American feminist scholar, former fellow of Harvard's Warren Center for North American History, currently employed as Assistant Professor of History and of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts
, Amherst. Gore is one of a new generation of young scholars active in preserving and exploring the infrequently chronicled history of 20th century black women's radicalism, in the US and beyond. Along with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, Gore edited a collection of essays Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women In The Black Freedom Struggle (NYU Press, 2009), to which she contributed the chapter "From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria Ama Garvin".
Ernesto Aguilar in Political Media Review summed up the importance of Want to Start A Revolution? and similar work in forging connections between radical and progressive scholars and activism:
Feminist Review found the anthology also illuminating about the history of intersectionality
as more than merely an academic method of analysis but as the theoretical and existential core of a radical praxis:
Gore's book Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War, scheduled to be published by NYU Press in 2011, expands the author's project to recuperate the voices and histories of radical black women in the US in the early Cold War
era, and their militancy which produced the pre-history of the better-remembered civil rights and feminist/women's movements. Vicki Garvin is again highlighted alongside other unjustly forgotten organizers, activists and intellectuals such as Thelma Dale, the artist Beulah Richardson, and the communist leader Claudia Jones
.
University of Massachusetts
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, Amherst. Gore is one of a new generation of young scholars active in preserving and exploring the infrequently chronicled history of 20th century black women's radicalism, in the US and beyond. Along with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, Gore edited a collection of essays Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women In The Black Freedom Struggle (NYU Press, 2009), to which she contributed the chapter "From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria Ama Garvin".
Ernesto Aguilar in Political Media Review summed up the importance of Want to Start A Revolution? and similar work in forging connections between radical and progressive scholars and activism:
Feminist Review found the anthology also illuminating about the history of intersectionality
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a feminist sociological theory first highlighted by Kimberlé Crenshaw . Intersectionality is a methodology of studying "the relationships among multiple dimensions and modalities of social relationships and subject formations"...
as more than merely an academic method of analysis but as the theoretical and existential core of a radical praxis:
Gore's book Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War, scheduled to be published by NYU Press in 2011, expands the author's project to recuperate the voices and histories of radical black women in the US in the early Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
era, and their militancy which produced the pre-history of the better-remembered civil rights and feminist/women's movements. Vicki Garvin is again highlighted alongside other unjustly forgotten organizers, activists and intellectuals such as Thelma Dale, the artist Beulah Richardson, and the communist leader Claudia Jones
Claudia Jones
Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was a Trinidadian journalist, who applied her skills to becoming a political activist and black nationalist through Communisum....
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