Inheritance

Inheritance

Volume 48, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2020
Jillian M. Báez and Natalie Havlin

Excerpted from the Editors’ Note

We foreground the work of the Cite Black Women collective in our introduction to this special issue of WSQ Inheritance in order to recognize and acknowledge Christen A. Smith’s and the collective’s important labor in centering the foundational intellectual and political role of Black women in feminist movements as well as in gender and women’s studies. The #CiteBlackWomen collective focalizes key concerns that this special issue of WSQ and we, as general editors of WSQ, share: How does the transference of feminist knowledge production occur? Whose feminist scholarship is preserved, acknowledged, and passed on? How might feminist scholars grapple with the power dynamics of whose work is recognized and built upon in order to transform our scholarship and political practices?