Black women’s employment is framed as harming black men, unlike white women’s

Evidence

When white women enter the work force today it is seen as a positive step, a move toward gaining independence, while more than ever before in our history black women who enter the work force are encouraged to feel that they are taking jobs from black men or de-masculinizing them. For fear of undermining the self-confidence of black men, many young college-educated black women repress their own career aspirations. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to tensions between black nationalist and feminist priorities. — connects to: Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 46

Related

• Black women wage-earners faced assault from both white and black men. (similarity 0.86)
• White female workers actively blocked black women’s hiring through threats and complaints. (similarity 0.85)
• Employer-employee relations made white ‘common oppression’ rhetoric offensive to black women (similarity 0.84)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.83)
• Black women have always been free from femininity’s protective constraints. (similarity 0.83)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery forced black women into work independence, not voluntary choice (similarity 0.83)
• Black women’s workforce participation did not produce feminist consciousness (similarity 0.83)
• White women entered the work force later but advanced faster than black women (similarity 0.83)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.83)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.82)
• Enslaved women’s unpaid labor did not produce feminist consciousness but resentment at denied womanhood (similarity 0.82)
• Warnings against white men function as psychological control over black women’s freedom. (similarity 0.82)
• White-scholarship findings about women workers were misapplied to Black women (similarity 0.82)
• Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism #corroborates (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 46