The unifying 1970s category of black suppressed internal differences among nonwhite Britons.

Evidence

This rightward drift did not go unchallenged, however. Black Marxism appeared during a crucial period of political organizing, just a few years after the founding of the National Black United Front (NBUF) and the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP). Black nationalism was on the rise in this period, following a decade in which an increasing number of Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism as alternatives to liberal integrationism and “race first” capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28 (#expands, via linked claim)

When I began the research for Ain’t I A Woman, my primary intent was to document the impact of sexism on the social status of black women. I wanted to provide concrete evidence to refute the arguments of antifeminists who so loudly proclaimed that black women were not victims of sexist oppression and were not in need of liberation. As the work progressed, I became increasingly aware that I could arrive at a thorough understanding of the black female experience and our relationship to society as a whole only by examining both the politics of racism and sexism from a feminist perspective. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The 1970s UK crisis fused economic, cultural and ethnic traumas into one ruptural conjuncture; Postwar Caribbean migration exposed Britain’s latent imperial racial stereotypes; Foundational workers’ histories erased Black presence from the English working class (+9 more)

Related

• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.80)
• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s (similarity 0.79)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.79)
• 60s black liberation codified sexist role separation within the movement (similarity 0.79)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black middle-class respectability stigmatized calypso as lower-class degeneracy #exemplifies (0.60)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47
• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28
• Black identity is reduced to a catalog of stereotyping colonial caricatures #exemplifies (0.55)
• Black lower-class customs amounted to a political rejection of English bourgeois morality #exemplifies (0.55)
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. #exemplifies (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 208