ABSTRACT
Radical black feminism is a black feminism which is anti-capitalism, anti-imperialist, anti-heteropatriarchal, and anti-white supremacist. It aligns with a critical sociology drawing upon Marxist insights while centering race and gender. Radical black feminism articulates the simultaneity of the systems, challenges the masculinist frame, and presses for fundamental change of the racial capitalist patriarchal social order. Radical Black feminist sociologists retain the notion of agency/activism largely by incorporating resistance into theorization and by participating in social change struggles. Black feminist thinkers in sociology have played a signature role in re-centering our understanding of race through an intersectional analysis: gender, sexuality, race, and class. But radical Black feminists name capitalism, articulating how racialized capitalist patriarchy profoundly structures Black life in the context of racism and white supremacy historically and today. Black feminist sociologists have inculcated in the theory the sociological dynamic of agency and social structure. Moreover, radical Black feminism anchors heteropatriarchy’s intimate face as well as its political economy.
