White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women

Evidence

Despite the reality that white upper and middle class women in America suffer from sexist discrimination and sexist abuse, they are not as a group as oppressed as poor white, or black, or yellow women. Their unwillingness to distinguish between various degrees of discrimination or oppression caused black women to see them as enemies. As many upper and middle class white feminists who suffer least from sexist oppression were attempting to focus all attention on themselves, it follows that they would not accept an analysis of woman’s lot in America which argued that not all women are equally oppressed because some women are able to use their class, race, and educational privilege to effectively resist sexist oppression. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 427

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 556; Black women supported feminism more strongly than white women in 1972 — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 439; The mainstream women’s movement was deliberately structured around white middle-class interests. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 435 (+1 more)

Related

• The mainstream women’s movement was deliberately structured around white middle-class interests. (similarity 0.87)
• Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency (similarity 0.87)
• Black women supported feminism more strongly than white women in 1972 (similarity 0.86)
• A racist and classist feminism merely perpetuates women’s bondage to patriarchy. (similarity 0.84)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.84)
• The women’s movement equated liberation with capitalist economic success (similarity 0.83)
• White women hold privileges exceeding all US groups except white men. (similarity 0.83)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.83)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.83)
• Black women rejected the movement’s execution, not feminism’s ideology. (similarity 0.83)
• American women perpetuate the very racism and sexism that oppress them (similarity 0.83)
• All American women are socialized racist, classist, and sexist regardless of feminist labels. (similarity 0.82)
• Women’s liberation depends on liberating all oppressed strata simultaneously (similarity 0.82)
• White racial imperialism granted white women the right to oppress black women and men. (similarity 0.82)
• Awareness of sexist discrimination does not equal eliminating sexist oppression (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Non-oppressed women sustain a reformist, racist, classist feminism without urgency #corroborates (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 556
• The mainstream women’s movement was deliberately structured around white middle-class interests. #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 435
• Black women supported feminism more strongly than white women in 1972 #corroborates (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 439