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- You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
- Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt…
- Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they…
- Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
- White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
- Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater…
- Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy†to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever…
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the…
- I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read…
- Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that…
- While it has become “cool†for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not…
- As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work…
- It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
- …“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
- When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
- Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined…
- They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other…
- Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans†within the framework of white supremacy has…
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- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker