Problem: identity politics

ignore intergroup
differences, one-
dimensional identities
Black, or female never
both

Ziel des Textes:

exploring Race and
gender dimensions
of violence against
women of color
battering/ rape

experiences of WOC
product of intersecting
patterns of racism and
sexism
no
representation
in antiacist or
antisexist
discourse -
doppelte
Marginalisierun
g
 3 Kategorien:
1. Structural Intersectionality
2. Political Intersectionality
3. Representational intersectionality

women shelters
L.A.

class
issue?

dependency
 intervening factors: gender and class
oppression -> poor education
racially discriminatory employment an
housing practices
immigrant women and
domestic abuse

fear of deportation
language barrier
 no extra
funding for
women who
are affected
on more than
one level, burn
out for people
who try to
meet the
special
conditions
nevertheless
 intersectional disempowerment throug
having to chose between two dimensio
two groups

default setting: Racism: Black - mlae

Sexism: white-female… failing to adre
all dimensions of sexism, racism

even manifestation or
reproduction of subordination
of the not included group of
women of color in anti-racism
and anti-sexism
 erasure of WOC by the
strategic silences of
antiracism and feminism

feminist issues in POC-

Communities as migration of the
„White woman’s concern“

Shahrazad Ali: Antifeminist,

„The Blackman’s Guide to
Understanding the
Blackwoman“
in Germany still
mild/nachsichtig
traditional vs non-traditional victims