Implicit signals like gasps can mark feminism as a white private cult

Evidence

If a black student acknowledges that she is not familiar with the work of Audre Lorde and the rest of the class gasps as though this is unthinkable and reprehensible, that gasp evokes the sense that feminism is really a private cult whose members are usually white. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch5 claims that academics are more disturbed by naming bias than bias itself, and the tacit signaling of exclusion. — connects to: White feminists’ self-victimization rhetoric served their opportunistic interests — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 421; White women fear black women’s power to expose their hypocrisy — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 203; Contrived liberal endings encode postimperial white paternal fantasies. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims. #corroborates (0.90) — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 33
• White feminists’ self-victimization rhetoric served their opportunistic interests #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 421
• White dominance in feminism reflects racial imperialism, not black disinterest #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 464
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416
• White women fear black women’s power to expose their hypocrisy #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 203
• Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism #corroborates (0.80)
• Contrived liberal endings encode postimperial white paternal fantasies. #corroborates (0.75)
• Liberation modeled on white male power inherently divides women from each other. #corroborates (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 456
• Racism persists as unconscious normalized privileging of whiteness #corroborates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466