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Black Feminism: Intersectionality and Empowerment of American Black Women in The Novels of Gloria Naylor and Terry Mcmillan The study is designed to identify different systems of oppression American Black women face in their lives. The study explores common Black feminist themes in the novels of Naylor and McMillan. The study brings forth different systems of oppression that Black female characters of Naylor and McMillan face, and the ways in which these women struggle against different oppressions, and attain empowerment. The research is qualitative in nature, and the texts have been analyzed by feminist content analysis technique. The Black Feminist theory by Patricia Hill Collins as explained in her workBlackFeministThought:Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment has been utilized as theoretical framework. The study is delimited to The Women of Brewster Place and Bailey’s Café by Gloria Naylor, and Mama and Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan. The content analysis reveals that race, gender, class, sexuality, disability and religion generate systems of oppression that African American women have to experience in their lives. In the intersecting systems of oppression these women either play the role of an oppressor or an oppressed. It is found that in order to fight against these oppressions, Black women attain empowerment through their work, education, relationships, culture and religious institutions. The study concludes that there is no universal female experience that can be applied on women around the world.
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