White feminists resisted deconstructing ‘woman’ to include race

Evidence

Yet there was no con current collective zeal to create a body of feminist scholarship that would address the specific realities of black women. Again and again black female activists, scholars, and writers found ourselves isolated within feminist movement and often the targets of misguided white women who were threatened by all attempts to deconstruct the category “woman” or to bring a discourse on race into feminist scholarship. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 222

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black students have long viewed feminism as a white movement irrelevant to racial struggle. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 208; Scholarship universalized white women and black men while erasing black women — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 221; White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference #expands (0.91)
• White feminists dismissed race talk to preserve a unified sisterhood #expands (0.88) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 16
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416
• Early second-wave feminism was dominated by white women who excluded black women #corroborates (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 405
• White feminists excluded black women by analogy rather than overt discrimination #qualifies (0.78) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 420
• Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color #qualifies (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472
• White dominance in feminism reflects racial imperialism, not black disinterest #corroborates (0.74) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 464