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Title:	Interview with Grace Lee Boggs
Authors:	Global Feminisms Project
Keywords:	global, feminism, feminists, intersectionality, cross-cultural, United States, American Feminists, U.S. Feminists
Issue Date:	21-Nov-2003
Series/Report no.:	Global Feminisms U. S. Site Interview
Abstract:	Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose 60 years of political involvement encompasses the major U.S. social movements of the 20th century -- labor, civil rights, Black power, Asian American, women’s and environmental justice. A daughter of Chinese immigrants, she was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1915. In 1953, she came to Detroit where she married James Boggs, labor activist, writer and strategist. Working together in grassroots groups and projects, they were partners for over 40 years until James Boggs’ death in July 1993. The Monthly Review Press published their book, Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century, in 1974. In 1992, with James Boggs, Shea Howell and others, she founded Detroit Summer, a multicultural, intergenerational youth movement program, to rebuild, redefine and re-spirit Detroit from the ground up. She spreads her ideas by writing a weekly column in the Michigan Citizen newspaper. In 1998, the University of Minnesota Press published her autobiography, Living for Change. Among numerous honors, Boggs has received the distinguished Alumna Award from Barnard College, the Chinese American Pioneers Award, from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and a lifetime achievement award from the Anti-Defamation League. A plaque in her honor is displayed at the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
Description:	The 'Global Feminisms Project' is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. Our international collaborators are: SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, India; Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, Poland; China Women's University in Beijing, China; and Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. DIRECTIONS FOR VIEWING THE GLOBAL FEMINISMS INTERVIEWS: Click on the “via BlueStream” button to launch QuickTime Player, and then select the play button (►) in the lower left-hand corner of the QuickTime Player interface. Users may also launch QuickTime Player by clicking on the “View/Open” link associated with the MPEG, or video, file under the “Files in This Item” heading. Due to large file size, the video may take up to ten minutes to load. If the picture breaks up or does not flow freely, play the video for a minute, pause it for a minute, and then play again.
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