Why did an interracial feminist movement fail to develop in the United States? Were white feminists racist?
References
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WinifredBreines.The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement (Oxford University Press, 2006). Explores why an integrated radical feminist movement did not develop in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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WinifredBreines.The Great Refusal: Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962–1968 (Rutgers University Press, 1989). A look at the tensions in the New Left between prefigurative politics and strategic politics; the first was based on the idea of living the new values of the movement in the present, and the second focused on movement success.
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SaraEvans.Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979). An important early account of the development of the white, radical feminist movement.
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BenitaRoth.Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Roth argues that the three currents of feminism developed separately, based on the idea that the only way they could proceed was on the basis of organizing their own.
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KimberlySpringer.Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 (Duke University Press, 2005). Considers five black feminist organizations as an antidote to the dominant history of second-wave feminism as white.
