The Combahee River Collective Forty Years Later: Social Healing within a Black Feminist Classroom

Abstract

We are representative of the power and potential to black feminist thought upon two generations of women of color. We were brought together as members of a course on black feminist thought and within this class the Combahee River Collective Statement played a central role in defining and transmitting the healing power of black feminist thought. This article adheres to the form, structure, and tradition of the Combahee River Collective in order to identify four topics that are of great importance to us as inheritors of a black feminist intellectual tradition.