Ethnicity: the fourth burden of black women - political action

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While white feminists emphasise the problems of patriarchy or capitalism black women stress a triple oppression. All black people are subordinated by racial oppression, women are subordinated by sexual domination, black women are subordinated by both as well as class. I want to point out that the triple oppression of black women is often ignored because of the research framework that is rigidly applied. Researchers study the victims of the triple oppression, rather than studying racism, sexism, or class prejudice at the institutional level. Finally, in defining race relations in terms of cultural rela tions, and not in terms of power relations, black, rather than ethnic, consciousness is ignored, Thus the third section in this paper focuses on struggles instigated by black women, that have been specifically black and structured by racism.

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