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    Black women have had a difficult relationship with white American feminism due to white feminism often focusing on advocating for rights that benefit white women while complicating with structural racism. Black feminism arose in response to address the unique challenges Black women face at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality that were not addressed by white feminist movements. Numerous scholars have discussed how Black feminism must be understood in the context of confronting white supremacy.

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    Black women have had a difficult relationship with white American feminism due to white feminism often focusing on advocating for rights that benefit white women while complicating with structural racism. Black feminism arose in response to address the unique challenges Black women face at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality that were not addressed by white feminist movements. Numerous scholars have discussed how Black feminism must be understood in the context of confronting white supremacy.

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    “Difficult” may be the best way to describe Black women’s relationship to white

    American feminism. Numerous discussions of Black feminism in the US place it in


    the context of white supremacy, race, sexuality, and gender (Carby 1982; Collins
    1990; Dill 1979; Garza 2016; Hooks 1984; Oyewumi 1997). White women have not
    been innocent in articulating the demand for women’s rights. Too often, white women’s
    feminist organizing has meant articulating rights for women gendered racially
    white while being deeply complicit with structural racism, asserting stereotyped

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