White women hold privileges exceeding all US groups except white men.

Evidence

Let it be stated unequivocally that the American white woman has had a better opportunity to live a free and fulfilling life, both mentally and physically, than any other group in the United States, excluding her white husband. Thus any attempt to analogize black oppression with the plight of American white women has all the validity of comparing the neck of a hanging man with the rope-burned hands of an amateur mountain climber. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 542

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the anti-feminist black female argument that analogizing black and white female oppression is invalid.
• XREF: connects to: White racial imperialism granted white women the right to oppress black women and men.; White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119; Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism

Related

• White racial imperialism granted white women the right to oppress black women and men. (similarity 0.87)
• Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism (similarity 0.87)
• American women perpetuate the very racism and sexism that oppress them (similarity 0.84)
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men (similarity 0.84)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.84)
• Slavery elevated white women’s social status above black people (similarity 0.84)
• White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women (similarity 0.83)
• Using ‘women’ for white women alone perpetuates both racism and sexism. (similarity 0.83)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.83)
• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.83)
• White men set the terms of women’s liberation and exploit inter-group competition (similarity 0.83)
• Freedom for men requires ending the subjugation of women (similarity 0.83)
• White abolitionists opposed slavery but never supported racial equality. (similarity 0.82)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.82)
• Racial alliances superseded feminist solidarity between black and white women (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism #expands (0.75)
• White racial imperialism granted white women the right to oppress black women and men. #expands (0.70)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119