Dayo Gore (Dayo F. Gore) is an African-American feminist scholar, former fellow of Harvard's Warren Center for North American History, formerly employed as assistant professor of history and of women's studies at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...
, Gore is currently an associate professor in the department of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego. Gore is one of a new generation of young scholars active in preserving and exploring the infrequently chronicled history of 20th-century black women's radicalism, in the US and beyond. Along with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, Gore edited a collection of essays ''Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women In The Black Freedom Struggle'' (NYU Press, 2009), to which she contributed the chapter "From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of
Victoria Ama Garvin".
Ernesto Aguilar in ''Political Media Review'' summed up the importance of ''Want to Start A Revolution?'' and similar work in forging connections between radical and progressive scholars and activism:
''Feminist Review'' found the anthology also illuminating about the history of
intersectionality
Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these intersecting and overlapping factor ...
as more than merely an academic method of analysis but as the theoretical and existential core of a radical praxis:
Gore's book ''Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War'', was published by NYU Press in 2011. It expands the author's project to recuperate the voices and histories of radical black women in the US in the early
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
era, and their militancy which produced the pre-history of the better-remembered civil rights and feminist/women's movements.
Vicki Garvin is again highlighted alongside other unjustly forgotten women such as
Thelma Dale,
Beah Richards
Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, author and activist.
Rich ...
, and the communist leader
Claudia Jones
Claudia Vera Jones (; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and bla ...
.
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African-American historians
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21st-century American historians
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21st-century American academics