Book Review: Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships

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broader socioeconomic and political forces. She questions the cultural and historical definitions of African American identity and the cruelty affecting African American women using ethnographic materials from her personal investigations, interviews, and research.
Hill tries to contribute three goals throughout her work. First, she aims to incorporates the gender lens to the discrimination experiences that shaped the lived of African Americans (11). Second, she talks about the development of the intersectionality theory which states that systematic social inequality occurs because of the interactions of gender, race, and class (12). Lastly, she aims to change the idea of culture and base if off the structural way that African Americans are used to (13).
Hill has a unique way of introducing the reader to each chapter. She begins each section of a chapter stating her perspective on the issue being addressed and then supports it with evidence from her research or quotes from ...

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a quote by Deborah King that foreshadows the upcoming discrimination against woman in later chapters. The quote follows as :
"In a curious twist of fate, we find ourselves marginal to both the movements for women's liberation and black liberation irrespective of our victimization under the dual discriminations of racism and sexism" (Deborah K. King) (Hill, 4)
Black women demand that the issue regarding oppression be addressed. However the fact that Hill believes that feminist theory did not live up to the full significance of gender inequality and thus has been simplistic in describing this "double jeopardy" (Hill, 5) leads to the ignorance of those oppressions because they are over ...

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