CASE / 1974–1980
Combahee River Collective, Boston, 1974–1980
A bounded study of one Black feminist socialist collective's self-description, political education, and coalition organizing.
DETAILS
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Check the scope, related ideas, and institutional evidence behind the overview.
Scope, selection, freshness, and background links
Boundary: The collective's Boston-area organization and selected campaigns from 1974 to 1980; not all Black feminism, identity politics, or intersectionality.
Why this case: The case tests coalition against a presumed universal womanhood through an organization's own account and independent oral history.
Combahee organizing, 1974–1980 1974–1980
Selected organizing documented in the collective statement and members' oral histories.
Formal design
Rules in use
observation
Between 1974 and 1980, the Boston collective used political education and coalition organizing.