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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Black Feminist Movement, Womanism, and Intersectionality — Drill 28 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 4: Movements and Debates. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies questions on the Black Feminist Movement, womanism, and intersectionality — including the Combahee River Collective, Alice Walker, and Kimberlé Crenshaw. Strengthen your AP exam prep with these five AP African American Studies practice questions on theory, identity, and interlocking systems of oppression.
Passage
“We are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.”
— Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
Questions in This Drill
- Which of the following best describes the central argument of the Combahee River Collective Statement?
- Which of the following best explains why the Combahee River Collective Statement was a significant departure from mainstream second-wave feminism?
- Alice Walker’s concept of “womanism” is best understood as similar to Black feminism in that both
- Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of “intersectionality” primarily to address which of the following limitations in existing legal and political frameworks?
- Which of the following best illustrates the continuity between earlier Black women’s activism and the emergence of Black feminism in the 1970s–80s?