The Color of Experience. Sexuality and Politics in Black Feminist Thought
by Marianna Esposito
pp. 60-79 Issue 16 (8,2) – July-December 2021 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2021.8.2.4
Abstract
The essay investigates some aspects concerning that ‘economy of practices’ called into question by Hortense Spillers to indicate the symbolic and material process that has determined the concept of Colored Woman and has configured the subordination of the black female body, excluded from gender and, at the same time, slipped into the interstices of that peculiar colonial order of the discourse originating from capitalism. Starting from the historical partiality of ‘Blackness’, Black feminist thinkers have shown the interrelated functioning of male and racial domination within modern discourse, laying the foundations to reorganize the practical field of truth produced by scientific reason in order to the principle of human classification.