היא הייתה אחת משלוש המחברות של הצהרת קולקטיב נהר קומבהי המפורסמת, "אחד הדיונים הנקראים ביותר בפמיניזם השחור,"[4] אשר נכתבה בשנת 1977 ומהווה בסיס תאורטי הן לפמיניזם השחור והן לפמיניזם ההצטלבותי. מאמריה על גזענות, פמיניזם, פוליטיקה של זהויות ובריאות נשים פורסמו בהרחבה בארצות הברית.
Conditions Five, The Black Women's Issue, November 1979;[5]
Conditions Four, Smith, Barbara, and Beverly. I Am Not Meant to be Alone and Without You Who Understand: Letters From Black Feminists, 1972-1978, Winter 1978 [1]
Smith, Barbara & Beverly. "Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue", in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (eds), Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, Persephone Press, 1981.
Smith, Beverly. "Black Women's Health: Notes for a Course", in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara (eds), The Feminist Press, 1982. ISBN 0-912670-95-9
Smith, Beverly. "Face-to-Face, Day-to-day — Racism Consciousness Raising", A conversation with Tia Cross, Freada Klein & Beverly Smith, in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara (eds), Feminist Press, 1982. ISBN 0-912670-95-9
Smith, Beverly. "Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion", in From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement, ed. Marlene Gerber Fried, South End Press, 1990, p. 86.
^Hammonds, Evelynn M. Transitions, Environments, Translations, Cora Kaplan, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates (eds), Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-415-91540-6, p. 298.
^Smith, Barbara. Home Girls, p. xlix, Introduction.
^Smith, Barbara. Home Girls, p. 375, Contributors Notes.
^Off Our Backs Magazine, October 1998. Klorman, Renee, interview with Barbara Smith: Activist. Writer. Revolutionary. Barbara Smith: A political life as a Black radical, lesbian feminist.