If you’re white and you identify as a feminist, then I urge you to read this book.
It wasn’t until the civil rights movement in 1965 that Black women could vote, but unethical disenfranchisement of voters of color is at a high even today. Even worse, when millions of women “won” the right to vote in 1920, Black women were still being discriminated against and disenfranchised in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. I had always assumed that the suffrage movement was about all women getting the right to vote, but come to think of it, I had never pictured suffragettes as anything but white. Like most extensions of systemic racism in the United States, the depth of racism that is embedded into feminism was unknown to me until the Black Lives Matter movement reached its newest height last year. Hood Feminism exposes the honestly terrible job that we white women have done in including everyone in this movement: especially women who are not cis, straight, and white. Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot reminds us that feminism is about much more than just white women paying more for razors and not being able to fit their smartphones in their pockets. Barring the obvious problem of ignoring nonbinary people, I hadn’t taken into account that feminism is concerned with many more than two groups. I’ve believed that feminism was part of a dichotomy where society is made up of two groups: women and men. Like what you hear? Find more of our programs online.For years, I’ve considered myself a feminist. Mikki Kendall talked with us about her critique of the current mainstream feminist movement and how she feels it's not serving the needs and rights of black women. And that the same exclusion of black women that operated in 1920 is still alive and well in feminism today. Her new book is called "Hood Feminism," and it explores how the traditional feminist movement has failed to include the struggles of black women in their fight for equality.
And racism within the movement continues to taint the way it represents and supports Black women in this country, says author and activist Mikki Kendall. And for the past hundred years the feminist movement has continued to advocate for the rights of women.īut that movement established its roots during the time of segregation. This summer will mark 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment-the amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote. Demonstrators protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC, during the Women's March.ĪNDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
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