Women of color rejected white feminists’ hijab critique as denying agency

Evidence

A collective response was authored by a group of women of color including Muslim women denouncing Blavatsky’s argument as racist and stuck in second-wave feminism, concerned with saving brown women, stating that her argument “serves to assert white feminist privilege and power by producing a reductive understanding of racial and gendered violence and by denying Muslim women their agency.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 573

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