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Rebecca Walker (born Rebecca Leventhal; November 17, 1969) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, and living there as a child, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, a Black Protestant womanist writer, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Her parents became active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
Rebecca Walker in 2003. The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article, "Becoming the Third Wave." [1] Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, [2] prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave.
In February, Black dropped a debut studio album, “Let Her Burn,” and went on tour soon after, making stops in Montreal, New York City, Los Angeles and other major cities.
A decade after the release of “Friday” — the ode to the start of the weekend that catapulted a then-13-year-old Rebecca Black to fame — the singer-songwriter finally feels like she is in ...
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Black Cool, Editor Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull, 2012) Mommy Wars, Editor Leslie Steiner (Random House, 2006) Rhetorical Contexts, Editors LouAnn Thompson and Suzanne Webb (Longman Publishers, 2003) ¿Que Te Parece? Editors James Lee, Doly Jesuita Young, et al. (McGraw Hill, 2003)
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