![]() ![]() Studying Lorde’s original use of the word “difference” can thus illuminate one of the origins of a hallowed term in recent academic debates, as well as the evolving conceptual language of African American political thought in the late twentieth century. Lorde used the word “difference” to address both general problems of oppression and specific problems of intersecting oppressions more than a decade before Iris Marion Young published Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990), widely seen within contemporary political theory as the watershed text in the philosophical study of the politics of difference. Audre Lorde’s importance to the history of African American political thought derives from her path breaking articulation in the 1970s and 80s of a “politics of difference.” That politics was largely predicated on her own identity as a black lesbian feminist who found herself marginalized from the leftwing social movements that most affected her: the feminist movement, the black freedom movement, and the lesbian and gay liberation movement. ![]()
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