The Black Marxist Feminism of bell hooks: Towards an Intersectional Theory of White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy

Contents
1 Introduction: Defining Black Marxist Feminism
	1.1 Initial Remarks
	1.2 Versus Marxist Cultural Studies: The British Context
	1.3 Versus Marxist Cultural Studies: The American Context
	1.4 Versus Black Women’s Studies and Womanism(s)
	1.5 Versus Black Feminism(s)
	1.6 Versus Marxist Feminism
	1.7 What Is White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy?
	1.8 The Plan Ahead
	References
2 The Proletariat Experiences of Black Womanhood
	2.1 “I Think Marxist Thought”
	2.2 On the Marxist Theories of Ideologies
	2.3 The Class-Consciousness of the Proletariat Experience
	2.4 The Economics of Having “Never Been Secure”
	2.5 Matters of Intersectionality
	2.6 After Angela Y. Davis: 1971–1981
	References
3 Imperialism(s) and the Toxicities of the Advanced Capitalist World
	3.1 Toward Racial Imperialism(s)
	3.2 Patriarchy’s Imperialism in a Capitalist Setting
	3.3 The Toxicities of Racism, Classism, and Sexism
	3.4 Imperialism(s) in the 1970s
	3.5 Early Twentieth-Century Imperialism(s)
	References
4 Theories of Value for Black Womanhood
	4.1 The Proof(s) of Exploitation
	4.2 The Pervasiveness of the Advanced Capitalist State
	4.3 The Inherent, Institutional Constraints of a Capitalist Economy
	4.4 Advanced Capitalist Crises
	4.5 The Form(s) of Capital
	4.6 “Dividends!”
	References
5 Rethinking Racial Capitalism(s) as Sexual Capitalism/Capitalist Sexism
	5.1 Setting the Scene
	5.2 Cedric Robinson’s Racial Capitalism
	5.3 Capitalism(s) in the Black Radical Tradition
	5.4 Questioning the Capitalist Moment
	5.5 Situating Black Womanhood in Racial Capitalism
	5.6 The Utility of Sex and the Technologies of Sexism
	5.7 Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Capitalist Racism
	5.8 Surpluses of Exploitation, Profit, and Expropriation
	References
6 The Contractarianism of White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
	6.1 The Capitalist Utility of Black Womanhood’s Sex and the Sexual Contract
	6.2 Theorizing the White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal Contract(s)
	6.3 The Historical-Materialist Significance of Black Womanhood
	6.4 The Human Sensuous Activity of Black Womanhood
	6.5 Expressing with Social Validity: Toward Contractarianism
	References
7 Conclusion: The Ideologies, Hegemonies, Pedagogies, and Rhetorics of White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy—The Emergence of the Oppositional Gaze
	References
Index of Names
Index of Terms