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her value, as though her body belongs to a male gaze before it belongs to her.

Then bell hooks stepped forward in 1981, writing in Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism: ‘The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that . . . women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labelling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that

Being a feminist with a race analysis means seeing clearly how race and gender are intertwined when it comes to inequalities.

The second is the idea that if someone is a good person, that person cannot be racist, as demonstrated in the student’s note that if someone overheard, the person might “misunderstand” Robby. This sort of racism makes for a very challenging dynamic in which whites are operating under the false assumption that we can’t simultaneously be good people

7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory

think that there is a fear among many white people that accepting Britain’s difficult history with race means somehow admitting defeat.

couples of different heritage must discuss race – what it means to them, how it currently affects their lives, and how it might affect their future children’s lives.

I no longer believe a Black person cannot be racist.