This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
But there is seldom any analysis of how the very nature and structure of the group itself may be founded on racist or classist assumptions. More important, so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved; therefore, there is little desire to change the situation. This has hurt me deeply. I have come to believe that the only reason women of a privileged class will dare to look at how it is that they oppress, is when they've come to know the meaning of their own oppression. And understand that the oppression of others hurts them personally.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
“My deepest sense of myself has not quite "caught up" with my "woman-identified" politics.”
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
“Coming to terms with the suffering of others has never meant looking away from our own.”
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
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