Black men’s disfranchisement compounded, not created, black women’s political powerlessness

Evidence

Black men lost more than the ballot on election day. They lost many other rights, which theoretically the constitution and federal civil rights laws protected: the right to hold public office, sit on juries, allocate tax dollars for schools and other social services, protect their women and themselves from insult and victimization, and share in other basic human and citizenship rights. Black women, like all American women, had never shared political equality with their men. Once black men were denied the suffrage, however, black women became ever more powerless and vulnerable to southern racial hostility. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 48

Categorization

• XREF: The intersectional double-bind of race and gender positions black women differently from both black men and white women; resonates with Crenshaw-style analysis. — connects to: Black Power masculinity internalized the racist myth of the emasculated Black man — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1015; Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47; Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Power masculinity internalized the racist myth of the emasculated Black man #expands (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1015
• Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men #exemplifies (0.80)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism #qualifies (0.78) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47