Historians have excluded black women from accounts of the women’s rights movement

Evidence

In those days no one really imagined there to be an audience for a work about black women. In general, black folks then were far more likely to denounce women’s liberation, seeing it as a white woman thing. As a consequence, black female individuals who eagerly embraced the movement were often isolated and estranged from other black folks. We were usually the only black person in predominately white circles. And any talk of race was viewed as shifting the attention away from the politics of gender. No wonder then that black females had to create a separate and distinct body of work that would bring together our understanding of race, class, and gender. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 17 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women’s experiences were ignored and ridiculed as unworthy of study; Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition; White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (+9 more)

Related

• Historians have systematically omitted black women from accounts of feminist history (similarity 0.90)
• Early black feminists were isolated from both black communities and the white feminist movement (similarity 0.89)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.89)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.88)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.88)
• Black women’s experiences were ignored and ridiculed as unworthy of study (similarity 0.87)
• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them (similarity 0.86)
• The women-and-blacks analogy erased black women by equating women with whites (similarity 0.86)
• Scholars frame black women’s organizing as anti-racist, not feminist (similarity 0.86)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.86)
• Black women rejected the movement’s execution, not feminism’s ideology. (similarity 0.85)
• Early second-wave feminism was dominated by white women who excluded black women (similarity 0.85)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.85)
• In the 1930s black and white women pursued divergent political priorities (similarity 0.85)
• Generic terms in suffrage histories suppress the exclusion of black women. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Early black feminists were isolated from both black communities and the white feminist movement #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 17
• Black women’s experiences were ignored and ridiculed as unworthy of study #corroborates (0.80)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition #expands (0.60)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference #expands (0.60)
• Rape of black women was ignored because they were seen as sexually permissive #exemplifies (0.50)
• Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men #complicates (0.40)