Racism was routine within the women’s rights movement against black reformers

Evidence

Discrimination against Afro-American women reformers was the rule rather than the exception within the woman’s rights movement from the 1830’s to 1920. Although white feminists Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and some others encouraged black women to join the struggle against sexism during the nineteenth century, antebellum reformers who were involved with women’s abolitionist groups as well as women’s rights organizations actively discriminated against black women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s project on Black feminist ideology, contrasting the ‘racism was response to suffrage’ claim with chronic discrimination. — connects to: White feminist organizing surged in reaction to black men gaining rights. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 366; Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 46; The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404 (+12 more)

Related

• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.86)
• White feminist organizing surged in reaction to black men gaining rights. (similarity 0.86)
• The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. (similarity 0.86)
• Black women faced a double bind between racist white feminists and patriarchal black leaders (similarity 0.85)
• Scholars frame black women’s organizing as anti-racist, not feminist (similarity 0.85)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.85)
• Early black feminists were isolated from both black communities and the white feminist movement (similarity 0.85)
• Black women’s organizations deferred women’s rights until after black liberation (similarity 0.84)
• Historians have excluded black women from accounts of the women’s rights movement (similarity 0.84)
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men (similarity 0.84)
• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them (similarity 0.84)
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women (similarity 0.84)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.84)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women (similarity 0.83)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism #corroborates (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 46
• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them #expands (0.70)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #corroborates (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women #corroborates (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 507
• Black women faced a double bind between racist white feminists and patriarchal black leaders #corroborates (0.65) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 28
• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. #corroborates (0.65) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404
• The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422
• Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men #corroborates (0.60)
• Early black feminists were isolated from both black communities and the white feminist movement #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 17
• Employer-employee relations made white ‘common oppression’ rhetoric offensive to black women #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 425