rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/flatbush-night-school-feminism-difference-and-identity-pt-1?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-flatbush-night-school-feminism-difference-and-identity-pt-1' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Branch: Flatbush DSA https://actionnetwork.org/groups/branch-flatbush-dsa https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg The readings: Feminism, Difference, and Identity.pdf These two sessions look at how Black and feminists of color writers pushed back against early feminist movements and race studies that completely ignored how race and gender intersect. Mainstream feminist texts from the 1960s and 1970s showed little awareness of racial inequalities, often over-concentrating on patriarchy while neglecting how race and ethnicity shape women's oppression. Session 1 covers foundational critiques from thinkers like bell hooks, Hazel Carby, and Patricia Hill Collins, who pointed out that mainstream feminism was mostly ignoring women of color and fighting from a one-size-fits-all perspective. Session 2 builds on that by looking at whiteness, institutional power, and how scholars like Avtar Brah, Ruth Frankenberg, and Barbara Christian have forced academia to recognize that you cannot separate race, class, and gender from one another in modern social contexts. Session 1: Interrogating Race, Rights, and Standpoint hooks, bell (1981). Racism and Feminism (p. 373) Carby, Hazel V. (1982). White Woman Listen! (p. 389) Collins, Patricia Hill (1990). Black Feminist Thought (p. 404) Williams, Patricia J. (1987). Race and Rights (p. 421) Session 2: Difference, Whiteness, and Institutional Power Brah, Avtar (1992). Difference, Diversity, Differentiation (p. 431) Frankenberg, Ruth (1993). White Women, Race Matters (p. 447) Christian, Barbara (1985). Black Feminism and the Academy (p. 462) https://actionnetwork.org/events/flatbush-night-school-feminism-difference-and-identity-pt-1