Class and Race Disparity

Article

Collected on: 5/5/09 (in the wee hours)

Can be found at: http://www.classmatters.org/identity/women.php
(the bottom one - by Attieno Davis)

This article talks about class differences and how they relate to the feminist movement. It talks about how white middle class women dominated the feminist movement so the issues of black working class women were mostly ignored. Thus it is related to race also because white women dominated and black women were mostly ignored and put on the back burner. The combined difference of class and race divided these two groups of women and the one group got mostly left out. This article relates to women's studies because it talks about those differences in the women's movement between class and race. The only way working class black women got what they wanted was in terms of child care, and rape protection because white middle class women wanted these same things. the working class black women didn't care about "taking off their bras or getting a job" they could already do both, and they had to work, according to the article. Their needs were getting a better education and fighting infant mortality and they were not addressed.

Related issues are class and race. Class and race both relate because the article talks about disparity and different experiences between women of different classes and races. The disparity was because the different classes and races had different needs and only the needs of one group was being addressed, hence the relation.

This article reflects a step back for women because it shows division among feminist movements. Division makes the movements weaker than they would be if they allied for the greater good of all.