White feminist scholars aligned with white men’s critical standards at black women’s expense

Evidence

While white women rarely physically assaulted black male slaves, they tortured and persecuted black females. Their alliance with white men on the common ground of racism enabled them to ignore the anti-woman impulse that also motivated attacks on black women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

While this is a perfect example of racist scholarship, in that the women that Smuts is talking about entering the work force for the first time are white women, it does provide an accurate picture of the negative attitudes toward women in the labor force. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 229 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scholarship universalized white women and black men while erasing black women — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 221; White-scholarship findings about women workers were misapplied to Black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 229; White dominance in feminism reflects racial imperialism, not black disinterest — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 464 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #corroborates (0.95) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• White-scholarship findings about women workers were misapplied to Black women #exemplifies (0.93) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 229
• White dominance in feminism reflects racial imperialism, not black disinterest #corroborates (0.90) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 464
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference #expands (0.90)
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #expands (0.89) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416
• White feminists resisted deconstructing ‘woman’ to include race #expands (0.88) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 222
• White men set the terms of women’s liberation and exploit inter-group competition #expands (0.87) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 454