All American women are socialized racist, classist, and sexist regardless of feminist labels.

Evidence

The process begins with action, with the individual woman’s refusal to accept any set of myths, stereotypes, and false assumptions that deny the shared commonness of her human experience; that deny her capacity to experience the Unity of all life; that deny her capacity to bridge gaps created by racism, sexism, or classism; that deny her ability to change. The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist, and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 457

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All women share accountability for racism that divides feminist movement. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 458; American women perpetuate the very racism and sexism that oppress them; Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 556

Related

• All women share accountability for racism that divides feminist movement. (similarity 0.90)
• American women perpetuate the very racism and sexism that oppress them (similarity 0.90)
• A racist and classist feminism merely perpetuates women’s bondage to patriarchy. (similarity 0.86)
• Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race (similarity 0.85)
• Awareness of sexist discrimination does not equal eliminating sexist oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness (similarity 0.84)
• Sexist-racist socialization convinced black women their interests were not worth fighting for. (similarity 0.83)
• Feminism must combat domination across sex, race, and class, not just male chauvinism (similarity 0.83)
• Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency (similarity 0.83)
• The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. (similarity 0.82)
• White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women (similarity 0.82)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.82)
• Black women rejected the movement’s execution, not feminism’s ideology. (similarity 0.82)
• The American public idealized black women embracing roles they rejected (similarity 0.82)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• American women perpetuate the very racism and sexism that oppress them #corroborates (0.85)
• All women share accountability for racism that divides feminist movement. #corroborates (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 458
• Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 556