To start off, Richie explains gender violence against all women with race not being a factor. Going through the chapters she begins to really explain her argument and describes feminism from a Black woman perspective, Black feminism. In the book she states, “A cornerstone of Black Feminist Theory is the understanding that the oppression of Black women is complex and layered. As a marginalized group, Black women are subjected to a tangled web of concentrated structural disadvantages that are profoundly intense and forceful in their ability to stigmatize and create subordinate social status” (Richie, 2012, ch. 5). Sexism is faced by both white and Black women, but Black women experience it in different ways. People tend to neglect race as a factor
