# Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith (Cleveland, 16 de desembre de 1946) és una activista i escriptora estatunidenca, defensora dels drets de la comunitat LGBT. És una de les majors exponents afroamericanes del feminisme als Estats Units. A la primeria dels anys setanta exercia com a mestra, escriptora i defensora del feminisme negre. Ha ensenyat en molts col·legis i universitats. Els seus assaigs i articles han aparegut en publicacions de prestigi, com ara The New York Times, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gai Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions i The Nation. Barbara té una germana bessona, Beverly Smith, que també és escriptora i activista lesbiana.
Amb Audre Lorde creà l'editorial "Dones de color", especialitzada en texts escrits per autores negres. El seu treball crític i editorial dels anys 1970 i 1980 ha ajudat a millorar la tradició literària de les dones afroamericanes i a definir el feminisme negre.

## Referències

* ↑ Smith interview by Loretta Ross, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, pàgs. 5-6.
* ↑ Smith, Barbara, interview by Loretta Ross, transcript of video recording, May 7, 2003, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, p. 2.
* ↑ Smith interview by Loretta Ross, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, pàgs. 3-4.
* ↑ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0-913175-02-1, p. xx, Introduction.

## Bibliografia seleccionada

* Jones, Alethia and Virginia Eubanks, editors. With Barbara Smith. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forth Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley. SUNY Press, 2014.
* Bethel, Lorraine, and Barbara Smith, eds. Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue 2, no. 2 (1979).
* Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith. Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Ithaca, N.I.: Firebrand Books, 1984, 1988.
* Hull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1982.
* Mankiller, Wilma, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, and Gloria Steinem, eds. The Reader's Companion to O.S. Women's History. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
* Smith, Barbara, and Beverly Smith. "Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue." In Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, Massachusetts: Persephone Press, 1981
* Smith, Barbara. "’Feisty Characters' and ‘Other People's Causis': Memories of White Racism and O.S. Feminism." In Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow, eds, The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. New York: Crown Publishing, 1998.
* Smith, Barbara, ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983.
* Smith, Barbara. Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom: The Truth that Never Hurts. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
* Smith, Barbara. "Where Has Gai Liberation Gone? An Interview with Barbara Smith." In Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds, Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gai Life. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.