SOC 156 Lecture Notes - White Trash, White Supremacy, Invisibility
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When contemporary feminists movement first began, it received mass media attention solely because of the presence of privileged class women rebelling against their class and patriarchal hierarchy within that class. As a consequence, the issues that received public attention were not those most relevant to working women or masses of women. Of course once class was placed on the agenda, women had to face the intersections of class and race. And when they did, it was evident that black women were clearly at the bottom of the society"s economic totem pole. Initially, well educated white women from working-class backgrounds were more visible than black females of all classes in feminist movement. In the 1990s collusion with the existing social structure was the price of so-called liberation. Chapter 10 white poverty: the politics of invisibility. When i was a small child we lived in the hills without neighbors nearby.
