Starting from a reflection on
Black Feminism this article deals with the inter-relationship between gender
domination and racism as one of the most important theoretical and political
questions in Anglo-Saxon feminism: how far does racist segregation shape sexist
segregation and create an obstacle to the political unity of feminism? If the
ideological subject “women” has imploded under the impact of the critique of
patriarchy what about the subject of feminism itself “we women”? Our thesis is
to demonstrate how the discourse of domination provides oppressed groups with
ahistorical frameworks that constantly reify these same groups including in
their positive statements. In these conditions, wanting to “de-essentialise”
the subject of feminism, women runs the risk of renaturalising them in a myriad
of sub-categories (black women, headscarf-wearing women, migrant women...),
which become preconditions to struggles. Our ability to act and be future
political subjects depends on our capacity to reveal the historicity of the
inter-relationship of the categories of “sex” and “race” and to use chaos
techniques capable of inventing another political language.