Black women embraced a harmful matriarch label because it promised privilege

Evidence

Yet black women embraced the label matriarch because it allowed them to regard themselves as privileged. This merely indicates how effectively colonizers are able to distort the reality of the colonized so that they embrace concepts that actually do them more harm than good. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels internalized racial ideology discussed by Frantz Fanon and Black Marxism traditions. — connects to: The matriarchy myth discredited black women and black men simultaneously — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 223; Matriarch implies controlling power that black women simply lack — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 214; Calling black women matriarchs ignores the traumas of their coerced childbearing — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 213 (+2 more)

Related

• The matriarchy label falsely persuades black women they hold power they lack (similarity 0.94)
• The matriarchy label steers black women away from feminism they need (similarity 0.90)
• Calling black women matriarchs ignores the traumas of their coerced childbearing (similarity 0.89)
• Matriarch implies controlling power that black women simply lack (similarity 0.88)
• The matriarchy myth discredited black women and black men simultaneously (similarity 0.88)
• Slavery-era myths branded black women masculinized to defend patriarchal ideology. (similarity 0.85)
• The matriarchy myth suppresses black women’s collective political organizing (similarity 0.84)
• The Moynihan matriarchy myth prescribed female subordination as the cure for racial oppression (similarity 0.83)
• Black mothers are criminalized for parenting choices white mothers are celebrated for (similarity 0.82)
• Black men’s alienation stemmed from Black women having any power at all (similarity 0.82)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.82)
• Black men asserted patriarchy to compensate for losing status to white men (similarity 0.82)
• Sexist ideology, not evidence, grounded Moynihan’s matriarchy thesis (similarity 0.82)
• Institutionalized sexism protected black male sexuality while legitimizing black female assault (similarity 0.81)
• Black women’s anger at unemployed black men reflected their own embrace of patriarchy (similarity 0.81)