Week 6 Flashcards
(15 cards)
What did the Black radicals argue?
That the white radicals ignored intersectionality of Black women. They saw them as less than and really only cared for white women and not black women
What did the lesbian radicals not do?
Lesbian radicals were not considering/were erasing racial differences
What did the Black radicals want?
Black male radicals insisted on female subservience and heteronormativity
What is identity politics?
Organizing around identities rather than causes.It is best to focus on your own identity group, with its intersections rather than get subsumed into someone else’s movement.
What was the relation of Black women and Black men and Social Movements?
Black women felt pressured to not fight for their right and instead fight alongside Black men
What did the anti-racist radical feminist think of Black men?
They felt that they were imitating white patriarchal supremacy. They were not for them.
How was the independence of Black women seen?
It was seen as a threat and they were often branded as “angry”.
What did identity politics do?
It became widespread and it reached other groups that were also stigmatized
How was identity politics viewed by conservatives?
It was viewed as a threat because oppression doesn’t exist anymore and that it was in the past.
What started DEI programs?
The murder of George Floyd. Many companies didn’t want to be seen as racist and wanted to help groups that normally were not represented
Who started the Black Lives Matter organization?
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
What type of solution is DEI?
It is a liberal solution because it does not solve a root problem. It just takes places and integrates in institutions and structures as they are
What is the problem with identity politics?
It has requirements and those who do not belong to an identity are excluded. It questions who is __ enough?
What other problems are there with identity politics?
Its focus blurs from sexism to other “isms”, stabilizes identities instead of challenging them(binary), requires allegiance to your group values and goals, and they require european male invented categories to be enforced.
What is the argument of Maya Bailey in Misogynoir?
She argued that Black women were unfairly misrepresented in the digital world, using multiple case studies that explore Black queer and trans women’s digital resistance on social media platforms
