Brien's Book: The Trouble Between Us

For the monograph I have chosen, the Trouble between us . To me this book was interesting and somewhat confusing at the same time. While I was reading I had to read a certain paragraph once or twice to actually get it. I can honestly say I am glad I do not have to read this book any longer. The main point of this book was to show us why the woman movement did not move within racial ethnicity. What I mean by this is how even though these two women of color wanted to work together they couldn 't. The color of their skin divided them in many factors. Black women thought that white women were superior than them thus they got more advantages. White woman thought that black women were careless because they started following the black panthers. These ideas are some of the few that divided them within the group. Although they wanted equality for women they forgot to look at the bigger picture. For example in the book it quotes, " They had to invent racial, gender and sexual selves in the effort to …show more content…
She was able to examine two groups which she was a part of. These groups were case study of the Boston based Bread and Roses collective. By doing this she was able to reveal the difference between black women and white, learning that Black sisters of the women movement felt processioned. This would not allow them to feel equal with white women. This led to join the black panther movement embracing that, black in fact was beautiful. They got the same idea that Malcolm X had, " If they don 't want us, that fine we can do better on our own." We can see this when Brienes says, " One way of looking at the movement is to recognize that blacks and whites rarely had a positive history or connection in the united states and that only through organizing on their own were blacks able to achieve some pride and attention for their grievances, a process that replicated with