College
Arts and Sciences
Major
Political Science
Faculty Mentor
Saheed Adejumobi
Abstract
In the mid-twentieth century, Claudia Jones and Lorraine Hansberry engaged in a multiplicity of creative works to cultivate a powerful movement of third-world communism that prioritized the abolition of oppressive systems targeting Black working women globally. Though only briefly crossing paths, the two revolutionary figures devoted their lives to the same struggle against the US imperial state. Drawing from past intellectual giants such as Karl Marx, Marcus Garvey, and Sojourner Truth, Jones and Hansberry developed transformative radical feminist theory and laid the foundation for contemporary manifestations of feminism. Their analyses of the indissoluble relation between institutional racism and the global system of capitalism generated a multidimensional critique of the modern world and thus, the necessity of communist revolution. As the roots of communist suppression and racial exploitation grow deeper into US culture, it is more crucial than ever to examine the revolutionary ideas of Jones and Hansberry.
Recommended Citation
Conroy, Brigid
(2024)
"Radical Intersections: The Lives and Works of Claudia Jones and Lorraine Hansberry,"
SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 8, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/suurj/vol8/iss1/15