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The Roots of Racism a Virtual Conversation with Barbara Smith

About Barbara Smith: Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women’s literary tradition and to build Black women’s studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s. She has edited three major collections about Black women including All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982) and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983. She is co-author with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism, 1984. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith was published by SUNY Press in 2014. She was co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She served two terms as a member of the Albany Common Council from 2006 to 2013. From 2014 to 2017 she worked for the City of Albany helping to implement its first Equity Agenda. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This conversation was recorded on May 25, 2021, by United Way of the Greater Capital Region. Learn more about the 21 Day Equity Challenge at www.unitedwaygcr.org/equitychallenge Music by Bensound.com