"I am not wrong. Wrong is not my name:" Towards a Black Feminist Anti Imperialist Epistemology

Angela Davis remains one of the most highly visible symbols of Black radicalism in contemporary America. While there has been much work on the ways Davis’ political commitments reflected a critique of capitalism and an embrace of Black self-determination, this paper centralizes Davis’ feminist political activities and theoretical interventions. It pays particular attention to Davis’ commitment to anti-imperialist politics, supporting the movement against the Vietnam war, struggles against neo colonialism in the Caribbean and Africa and struggles for Palestinian self-determination as expressions of her feminist consciousness. It argues that Black women pushed socialist and radical feminism in an anti-imperialist and transnational direction through their activism in the 1960s and 1970s.