Despite the gains that women have made because of the women's
liberation movement, black women have not embraced the move
ment. This article reports on a pilot study of 94 black women and
white women that examined the tensions between these two groups
and their failure to unite to combat the oppressive patriarchal system.
The variables that were studied included the women's liberation
movement, the feud over black men, white women supervisors and
black women workers, and the labeling of black women as matriarchs.
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