bell hooks
American author, feminist and social critic (1952 to 2021); author of Ain't I a Woman (1981).
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Sexism can be just as oppressive as racism, though Black women feared to say so
We were afraid to acknowledge that sexism could be just as oppressive as racism.
archive.orgSaid c. 1981This on korrents
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Sexism can be just as oppressive as racism, though Black women feared to say so
We were afraid to acknowledge that sexism could be just as oppressive as racism.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981) Said c. 1981
Twentieth-century Black women had learned to accept sexism as a fact of life
Twentieth century black women had learned to accept sexism as natural, a given, a fact of life.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981) Said c. 1981
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