Feminist politics must resist both white supremacy and patriarchy simultaneously

Evidence

If, as Inderpal Grewal reminds us, feminist activism constructs a variety of gendered subjects, how might feminists have avoided being drawn into the framework of superior, secular women, saving their less-enlightened and more-imperilled sisters from religion and community, and still responded to the dangers at hand? Finally, what should feminist politics look like in the Canadian context given the dangers of both white supremacy and patriarchy and the exigencies of a post-9/11 world as they operate in the West? — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 363

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Critical Race Feminism centers women of color facing simultaneous race and gender oppression — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1145; Critical race feminism is a race intervention against feminism’s essentializing of women — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1161; White feminists must forfeit group privilege to earn black women’s trust