Fear of being alone drove black women to accept black male sexism

Evidence

Contemporary black women who supported patriarchal dominance placed their submission to the status quo in the context of racial politics and argued that they were willing to accept a subordinate role in relationship to black men for the good of the race. They were indeed a new generation of black females—a generation that had been brainwashed not by black revolutionaries but by white society, by the media, to believe that woman’s place was in the home. They were the first generation of black women to face competition with white women for the attention of black men. Many of them accepted black male sexism solely because they were afraid of being alone, of not having male companions. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 537

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 24; Attributing black relationship problems to racism alone masks sexism’s impact — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 346; Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness (+2 more)

Related

• Attributing black relationship problems to racism alone masks sexism’s impact (similarity 0.89)
• Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race (similarity 0.89)
• Sexist-racist socialization convinced black women their interests were not worth fighting for. (similarity 0.89)
• Twentieth-century black women learned to accept sexism as natural fact (similarity 0.88)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.86)
• Black leaders resist acknowledging black male sexism to avoid complicating anti-racist efforts. (similarity 0.86)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.86)
• Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness (similarity 0.86)
• Black liberation requires fighting sexism as much as racism (similarity 0.85)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.85)
• Early black feminists were isolated from both black communities and the white feminist movement (similarity 0.85)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.84)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.84)
• Contraception’s spread converted black male sexism into open misogyny (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Attributing black relationship problems to racism alone masks sexism’s impact #expands (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 346
• Black women’s silence on sexism stemmed from socialization that devalued their femaleness #expands (0.50)
• Twentieth-century black women learned to accept sexism as natural fact #corroborates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 29
• Sexist-racist socialization convinced black women their interests were not worth fighting for. #expands (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 40
• Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race #expands (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 24