Many intellectual histories of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s rely heavily on essays and other explicitly ideological works as primary sources, a tendency that can overrepresent the perspectives of a small number of thinkers, most of whom were male. Historian Ashley D. Farmer has shown that expanding the array of primary sources to encompass more types of print material--including political cartoons, advertisements, and artwork--leads to a much better understanding of the movement and the crucial and diverse roles that Black women played in shaping it.
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