Northern white women’s racial motives diverged from black women’s without blocking cooperation.

Evidence

The mixed motives of the northern Baptist women did not preclude interracial cooperation. While different from those of black women, the white women’s motives were not incompatible with blacks’ desire for racial dignity and self-help. The northern white women exhibited their neo-abolitionist outlook in the fervor with which they committed themselves to aiding black education, working with black women’s societies, and providing means to the needy. They did so while making parallels between the Civil War and what they feared would be a second Civil War in the 1880s. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 539

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Positive cross-race feminist encounters occur mainly where white women lack power over black women — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 201; Black women traveled North within women’s missions, so interracial contact ran both directions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 480; Cross-racial cooperation can succeed despite divergent motives and interests — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 425 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Cross-racial cooperation can succeed despite divergent motives and interests #corroborates (0.92) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 425
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #complicates (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women #complicates (0.78) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 507
• Women’s cross-race dialogue fails partly from internalized racist hopelessness #complicates (0.76)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference #complicates (0.75)
• White feminists resisted deconstructing ‘woman’ to include race #complicates (0.74) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 222