White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the conceptual basis of white women’s complicity: an alliance built on racism that masks shared anti-woman aggression.
• XREF: connects to: 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; White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 383 (+26 more)

Related

• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.90)
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women (similarity 0.90)
• Douglass and black male activists allied with white patriarchs through shared sexism. (similarity 0.89)
• Shared sexism bonded militant black men and white men across racial divides (similarity 0.87)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.87)
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men (similarity 0.87)
• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them (similarity 0.86)
• White male brutality toward Black women stemmed from patriarchal misogyny, not racism alone (similarity 0.86)
• White men sympathized with black power because shared sexism overrode racism (similarity 0.86)
• White feminist organizing surged in reaction to black men gaining rights. (similarity 0.85)
• Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism (similarity 0.85)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.85)
• White men set the terms of women’s liberation and exploit inter-group competition (similarity 0.85)
• Liberation modeled on white male power inherently divides women from each other. (similarity 0.85)
• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them #corroborates (0.80)
• Douglass and black male activists allied with white patriarchs through shared sexism. #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 254
• Shared sexism bonded militant black men and white men across racial divides #responds-to (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 277
• Sexism unites black and white men across the racial divide that racism creates #responds-to (0.50)
• White men sympathized with black power because shared sexism overrode racism #responds-to (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 276