Women's Health Research at Yale: Blackness, Maternal Mortality, and Prenatal Birth: The Legacy of Slavery

"​Black women have long had to operate through both survivorship and resistance. Black women have resisted oppressors through the generational knowledge they carry and teach and through music, poetry, and family. Patricia Hill Collins, distinguished professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, refers to “Black Feminist Thought” as expressing the importance of dialogue and then compelling us to discuss the concepts of knowledge production and its impact on Black women’s lives. Black feminism is an idea of liberation rooted in Black women’s experiences."