ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of black British women thinkers in the development of political blackness and the central place given to education in their work. 'Black feminism' is employed in this instance as a broad, provisional category. Collins, P. H. and Young have both written extensively about the problems of labelling all black women intellectuals as feminists. Education was addressed within writing on black families, relationships between black women and the state, black political organization and the labour market. One response by black feminists was to reclaim neglected histories of black women's thought and activism. The commitment to political blackness was exemplified in the work of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD). As such, the notion of triple oppressions was a counter to both the gender-blindness that had afflicted Black Power politics and colour-blindness of 'white' feminism.