The comparison between African-American and white women, all poor and working class, speaks to recent criticisms within feminist scholarship, where Elizabeth Spelman, bell hooks, Barbara Christian, and others point to a distinctly white middle-class bias.
Work within recent years by white women and women of color has attempted to open up feminist thought to the perspectives and practices of those who the black man and subsequent police behavior.
As Spelman argued a number of years ago, "Feminists have rightly insisted that to talk simply about relations between whites and blacks, between rich and poor, between colonizer and colonized, masks gender distinctions within each group; for example, the problem with an explanation of inequality based …show more content…
Shirley, in a focus group discussion with other white women, states,"If a black couple came to look on our street, I would tell my friends, you know, don 't panic, give them a chance, you know ... I mean, I live right on the city line.
Although more nuanced in its racism than what is expressed by white men, white women, by and large, tie their critique of what is happening in the neighborhood to those "Others"(African Americans and Hispanics) who are moving in and dragging the neighborhood down.
African-American women 's critique of neighborhood and community Like white women, African-American women interviewed here center much of their critique around neighborhood concerns.
White women are willing to name "Others" as a problem in their neighborhood, but they are unwilling to name the white male "Self" in any consistent way as a perpetrator of violence in their own …show more content…
The white women are eager neither to name the "Problem" nor to discuss it; however, regarding neighborhood/community, white women are willing and able to name the problem and hold African Americans and Latinos responsible for current conditions.
Under the fragmenting public safety net, support for battered women 's shelters has been slashed along with a host of programs necessary for women and children to survive without men.
While racist America ensures that the consequences are not exactly the same, to be sure, women working across racial and ethnic groups offer a stronger voice for change than women working separately.
Why do white and African-American women offer such different versions of social critique?With respect to the case at hand, I would argue that racist America encourages white women to see the world filtered through a largely racially coded lens, through which they position men and women of color as always inferior.
Unlike white women, they have not historically been the recipients of economic gains associated with their menfolk and are less likely to protect
Work within recent years by white women and women of color has attempted to open up feminist thought to the perspectives and practices of those who the black man and subsequent police behavior.
As Spelman argued a number of years ago, "Feminists have rightly insisted that to talk simply about relations between whites and blacks, between rich and poor, between colonizer and colonized, masks gender distinctions within each group; for example, the problem with an explanation of inequality based …show more content…
Shirley, in a focus group discussion with other white women, states,"If a black couple came to look on our street, I would tell my friends, you know, don 't panic, give them a chance, you know ... I mean, I live right on the city line.
Although more nuanced in its racism than what is expressed by white men, white women, by and large, tie their critique of what is happening in the neighborhood to those "Others"(African Americans and Hispanics) who are moving in and dragging the neighborhood down.
African-American women 's critique of neighborhood and community Like white women, African-American women interviewed here center much of their critique around neighborhood concerns.
White women are willing to name "Others" as a problem in their neighborhood, but they are unwilling to name the white male "Self" in any consistent way as a perpetrator of violence in their own …show more content…
The white women are eager neither to name the "Problem" nor to discuss it; however, regarding neighborhood/community, white women are willing and able to name the problem and hold African Americans and Latinos responsible for current conditions.
Under the fragmenting public safety net, support for battered women 's shelters has been slashed along with a host of programs necessary for women and children to survive without men.
While racist America ensures that the consequences are not exactly the same, to be sure, women working across racial and ethnic groups offer a stronger voice for change than women working separately.
Why do white and African-American women offer such different versions of social critique?With respect to the case at hand, I would argue that racist America encourages white women to see the world filtered through a largely racially coded lens, through which they position men and women of color as always inferior.
Unlike white women, they have not historically been the recipients of economic gains associated with their menfolk and are less likely to protect