White women who did their own antiracist homework formed equal bonds with blacks

Evidence

When I asked individual white women who have friendships and positive work relations with black women in feminist settings what were the conditions enabling reciprocity, they responded by emphasizing that they had not relied on black women to force them to confront their racism. Somehow, assuming responsibility for examining their own responses to race was a precondition for relations on an equal footing. These women felt they approach women of color with knowledge about racism, not with guilt, shame, or fear. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 202

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation; Giving up on cross-racial dialogue is itself complicity in racism; White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #contradicts (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded #exemplifies (0.80)
• White reformist women recycled Black-oversexed stereotypes even while opposing discrimination. #qualifies (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 796
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism #complicates (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 46
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men #qualifies (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 383
• Self-hatred among Black women was blamed for Black men preferring White women #complicates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1016