White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men

Evidence

Given the psychohistory of American racism, for white women to demand more rights from white men and stress that without such rights they would be placed in a social position like that of black men, not like that of black people, was to evoke in the minds of racist white men an image of white womanhood being degraded. It was a subtle appeal to white men to protect the white female’s position on the race/sex hierarchy. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to hooks’ earlier claim that white feminism borrowed the language of black struggle while affirming the racial hierarchy. — connects to: White suffragists opposed black male suffrage out of racial hierarchy concerns. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 369; White feminist organizing surged in reaction to black men gaining rights. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 366; Racism was routine within the women’s rights movement against black reformers — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 376 (+14 more)

Related

• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.89)
• White suffragists opposed black male suffrage out of racial hierarchy concerns. (similarity 0.89)
• White feminist organizing surged in reaction to black men gaining rights. (similarity 0.89)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.88)
• White feminists appropriated feminism while hooks reclaims it for all people (similarity 0.87)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women (similarity 0.87)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.86)
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women (similarity 0.86)
• White feminists pursued work rights only for white women workers (similarity 0.85)
• Adopting feminist rhetoric did not free white feminists from sexist-racist attitudes. (similarity 0.85)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.85)
• Black women faced a double bind between racist white feminists and patriarchal black leaders (similarity 0.85)
• White men sympathized with black power because shared sexism overrode racism (similarity 0.85)
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests (similarity 0.85)
• Black men claimed sole victimhood and manhood rights while ignoring black women’s oppression. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #corroborates (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #expands (0.65) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416
• White racial imperialism granted white women the right to oppress black women and men. #exemplifies (0.60)
• Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men #corroborates (0.60)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference #expands (0.55)
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women #complicates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 507