Black Feminist Politics

From the Voting Rights Act to the Kamala Harris Vice Presidency (19652025)

This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black womens political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades. This book begins with 1965a pivotal year in which the Voting Rights Act fundamentally transformed political participation for African Americans and, notably, the year Kamala Harris was born. This temporal convergence serves as the books organizing framework, illustrating how the expansion of voting rights and the evolution of Black feminist politics created the conditions that made Harriss Vice Presidency possible. Drawing on political science, history, gender studies, and Black feminist theory, the chapters trace major developments in U.S. political life from 1965 to 2025. Topics include the interventions of Michelle Wallace, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker, as well as the implications of the Clarence ThomasA