Audre Lorde The Masters Will Never Dismantle The Master's House Analysis

The essay written by Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House” is a powerful piece written to highlight the struggles faced by racial and social minorities in America. She writes from the perspective of a queer feminist and also highlights that this not only relates to feminists, but to all black women. She says that the input from black women isn’t normally requested and therefore the problems faced by blacks are not addressed. Her opinion can be closely related to the Black Lives Matter Movement, a movement created and promoted by blacks in America to raise awareness of black men, women and children being killed across the nation. Her stance can be related to the Black Lives Matter Movement in various ways, such as the exclusion of blacks from society by whites and may be extended to the exclusion of people from …show more content…
The title of the piece, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” is basically a summary of how she feels. The unwritten rules, roles and gender functions that govern what is socially acceptable were created by white men and therefore were not really fit to please the women in society. The inequity in these reasons is the reason why feminism was started by white, middle class women. The only problem with feminism is that since it was made my middle class women, it really deals with problems faced by middle class white women, therefore excluding black women and the problems they face. Lorde addresses this problem and calls it “white feminism”. Lorde said “If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that women who clean your houses and tend to your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory, for the most part, poor women and women of color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?” (Lorde