és una activista i escriptora estatunidenca, defensora dels drets de la comunitat LGBT. És una de les majors exponents afroamericanes del feminisme als Estats Units. A la primeria dels anys setanta exercia com a mestra, escriptora i defensora del feminisme negre.Smith interview by Loretta Ross, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, pàg. 5-6. Ha ensenyat en molts col·legis i universitats. Els seus assaigs i articles han aparegut en publicacions de prestigi, com ara The New York Times, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions i The Nation. Barbara té una germana bessona, Beverly Smith, que també és escriptora i activista lesbiana.Smith, Barbara, interview by Loretta Ross, transcript of video recording, May 7, 2003, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, p. 2.
Amb Audre Lorde creà l'editorial "Dones de color", especialitzada en texts escrits per autores negres. El seu treball crític i editorial dels anys 1970 i 1980 ha ajudat a millorar la tradició literària de les dones afroamericanes i a definir el feminisme negre.Smith interview by Loretta Ross, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, pàg. 3-4.Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, , p. xx, Introduction.
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Bibliografia seleccionada 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.I.: 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 O.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 O.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.
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