Barbara Smith (Cleveland, Estados Unidos, 16 de diciembre de 1946) es una activista y escritora estadounidense, defensora de los derechos de la comunidad LGBT. Es una de las mayores exponentes afroamericanas del feminismo en Estados Unidos. A comienzos de los años setenta se desempeñaba como maestra, escritora y defensora de la corriente del feminismo negro.[1] Ha enseñado en numerosos colegios y universidades por los últimos cinco años. Los ensayos y artículos de Smith han aparecido en gran cantidad de publicaciones de prestigio, incluyendo The New York Times, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions y The Nation. Barbara tiene una hermana gemela, Beverly Smith, que también es una activista lesbiana y escritora.[2]
Fundó junto a Audre Lorde la editorial "Mujeres de Color", especializada en publicaciones escritas por mujeres negras. Su trabajo crítico y editorial en los años setenta y ochenta ha ayudado a mejorar la tradición literaria de las mujeres afroamericanas y a definir el feminismo negro.[3][4]
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- 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.Y.: 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 U.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 Causes’: Memories of White Racism and U.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 Gay Liberation Gone? An Interview with Barbara Smith." In Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds, Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
- ↑ Smith interview by Loretta Ross, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, pp. 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, pp. 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