The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism.

Evidence

The structure of the contemporary women’s movement was no different from that of the earlier women’s rights movement. Like their predecessors, the white women who initiated the women’s movement launched their efforts in the wake of the 60s black liberation movement. As if history were repeating itself, they also began to make synonymous their social status and the social status of black people. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s larger historical argument and to later feminist scholarship on movement waves and their exclusions. — connects to: Racism was routine within the women’s rights movement against black reformers — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 376; The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404; The mainstream women’s movement was deliberately structured around white middle-class interests. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 435

Related

• The mainstream women’s movement was deliberately structured around white middle-class interests. (similarity 0.90)
• 60s black liberation codified sexist role separation within the movement (similarity 0.88)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.87)
• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.87)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.87)
• Racism was routine within the women’s rights movement against black reformers (similarity 0.86)
• Black women rejected the movement’s execution, not feminism’s ideology. (similarity 0.86)
• Black women’s acceptance of patriarchy predated the 60s movement (similarity 0.85)
• Black women’s organizations deferred women’s rights until after black liberation (similarity 0.85)
• Scholars frame black women’s organizing as anti-racist, not feminist (similarity 0.85)
• Historians have excluded black women from accounts of the women’s rights movement (similarity 0.84)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.84)
• In the 1930s black and white women pursued divergent political priorities (similarity 0.84)
• Standard reasons for black women’s nonparticipation fail historical scrutiny. (similarity 0.84)
• A racist and classist feminism merely perpetuates women’s bondage to patriarchy. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. #exemplifies (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 404