1292: Angels Bled by Harp Strings: The Legacy of Baby Boomer and Gen X ‘White’ Feminism
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/06/15
‘White’ Baby Boomer and Gen X self-identified feminists thoroughly, consistently betrayed ‘black’ feminists. Empirical studies demonstrate mainstream second-wave feminist organizations from the 1960s–1980s systematically marginalized Black feminists. These sub-movements prioritized issues affecting middle-class white women. They excluded Black women from leadership and major policy agendas. Their foci neglected the effects of race and class. Black women founded the National Black Feminist Organization (1973) and the Combahee River Collective (1974). Bell Hooks and others criticized this neglect. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Wini Breines did too. It is not a small part; it is a large hunk of their legacy. What has been the reaction to this knowledge? Reactionary backlash to critique, and/or shame- and guilt-ridden enthusiastic performative over-correction and then damn the consequences.
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