White women gain citizenship rewards by participating in imperial violence

Evidence

It takes little imagination to comprehend the significance of one oppressed black woman being brutally tortured while the more privileged white women look passively at her plight. Incidents of this nature exposed to white women the cruelty of their husbands, fathers, and brothers and served as a warning of what might be their fate should they not maintain a passive stance. Surely, it must have occurred to white women that were enslaved black women not available to bear the brunt of such intense anti-women male aggression, they themselves might have been the victims. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White savagery is inverted into civilized protection of women; White women’s violence against people of colour is race-coded, not gender-coded, in empire — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 182; White women participated in racial violence through watching and keeping souvenirs (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced #complicates (0.82) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119