Black women’s scholarship entered publishing only once white women showed interest in race

Evidence

It was this critical gap that motivated me to research and write Ain’t I a Woman. It was published years later, after publishers of feminist work accepted that “race” was both an appropriate and marketable subject within the field of feminist scholarship. This acceptance came only when white women began to show an interest in issues of race and gender. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 221

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how marginalized scholarship only becomes publishable when the dominant audience develops interest in it — the market as gatekeeper of which oppressions get documented.
• XREF: connects to: Black intellectual theory entered mainstream academia only when reframed by white scholars — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 20; Black scholars were excluded from studying Black people as too biased — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 899

Broader Connections

• Black intellectual theory entered mainstream academia only when reframed by white scholars #corroborates (0.82) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 20
• Black scholars were excluded from studying Black people as too biased #complicates (0.74) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 899