Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Given the growth of women’s and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis. “...an outstanding contribution that is very highly recommended.” — Midwest Book Review “This new book clearly illumines the vibrant, radical, and transformative labor of women of color and black feminists against racist, sexist, classist, imperialist, and other oppressive dynamics ... Highly recommended.” — CHOICE “Are All the Women Still White? blends traditions of feminist-of-color struggle with the innovative insights of twenty-first-century thinkers, artists, and activists. For anyone engaged in inclusive, multi-issued work, this book is indispensable.” — Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender, also published by SUNY Press. Contents......Page 6 Images......Page 10 Table......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Rethinking Race......Page 15 Expanding Feminisms......Page 18 An Overview......Page 23 Conclusion......Page 27 Notes......Page 28 References......Page 29 A Poem for Dead Hearts......Page 32 Part One: Rethinking Solidarity, Building Coalition......Page 34 A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement......Page 36 The Theft of Black Queer Women’s Work......Page 37 Broadening the Conversation to Include Black Life......Page 38 When Black People Get Free, Everybody Gets Free......Page 39 Notes......Page 41 Are All the Blacks Still Men? Collective Struggle and Black Male Feminism......Page 42 Notes......Page 48 References......Page 49 Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex: Women of Color Transforming Antiviolence Work......Page 50 Against Complicity: Confronting State Violence......Page 52 From Crime and Punishment to the Victimization–Criminalization Continuum......Page 56 Removing the Cop in our Hearts: Toward Community Accountability......Page 59 Crossing Borders: Building Transnational Feminist Prison Praxis......Page 62 From Women Prisoners to People in Women’s Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary......Page 65 Conclusions......Page 67 Notes......Page 69 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing......Page 74 Slavery/Capitalism......Page 75 Genocide/Colonialism......Page 76 Orientalism/War......Page 77 Organizing Implications......Page 78 Heteropatriarchy and White Supremacy......Page 81 Conclusion......Page 83 Notes......Page 84 Part Two: Situating Identities, Relocating Feminisms......Page 86 Renegade Architecture......Page 88 Notes......Page 96 References......Page 99 “Still at the Back of the Bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle......Page 102 The Life......Page 105 The Legacy......Page 111 Notes......Page 115 Theoretical Shifts in the Analysis of Latina Sexuality: Ethnocentrism, Essentialism, and the Right (White) Way to be Sexual......Page 120 Ignoring Contradictions: Ethnocentrism, Acculturation, and Traditional Cultures......Page 123 Essentializing the “Right” Way to Be Sexual: Repression and Negative Sex......Page 126 Toward More Complex, Diverse, and Contextually Situated Sexualities......Page 134 Conclusions......Page 137 Notes......Page 138 The Power of Sympathy: The Politics of Subjectifying Women......Page 146 Pretexts......Page 148 The Plight of Afghan Women......Page 153 Envisioning Subjection: Afghan and Muslim Women as Objects of Art and Analysis......Page 156 Subjection at Home: Muslim American and Immigrant Survivors of Violence after 9/11......Page 159 Reviewing Power......Page 164 Notes......Page 167 References......Page 172 Part Three: Redefining Difference, Challenging Racism......Page 176 The Proust Effect......Page 178 Notes......Page 188 Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Women of Color in the Academy......Page 190 The “Home” Question......Page 193 Outsiders Within......Page 200 Academic Citizenship, Migration, and Epistemic Violence......Page 205 Epilogue......Page 212 Notes......Page 213 Toxic or Intersectional? Challenges to (White) Feminist Hegemony Online......Page 218 Black Feminist Online......Page 221 Black Twitter and Viral Feminism......Page 223 On “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter War”......Page 226 The Internet’s Neighborhoods and Online Gentrification......Page 227 Conclusion......Page 231 Notes......Page 235 Note to Self......Page 240 Notes......Page 249 Part Four: Reclaiming the past, Liberating the Future......Page 250 Mary Magdalene, Our Lady of Lexington: A Feminist Liberation Mythology......Page 252 Toward Liberation Mythologies......Page 253 Enter The Magdalene......Page 256 The Penitent Magdalene......Page 258 Our Impenitent Lady of Lexington......Page 261 Toward a Caribbean Feminist Liberation Mythology......Page 263 Mi María La Morena/My Mary The Dark One......Page 264 Salve Reina/Hail Queen......Page 266 Notes......Page 267 It All Started with a Black Woman: Reflective Notes on Writing/Performing Rage......Page 270 Because When God . . . Origins......Page 273 The Performance......Page 275 Concepts of Home......Page 276 Some Pieces of the Pays Natal......Page 282 Skin Castles......Page 283 Counter-Memories......Page 285 Notes......Page 289 References......Page 290 BOT I: A Performance Script in Two Parts......Page 292 MEGA :: situate......Page 293 CODE BLUE . . . CODE BLUE . . .......Page 294 GIGA :: discourse......Page 295 PETA :: race......Page 299 TERA :: ideology......Page 301 PETA :: mestizaje......Page 303 EXA :: resistance......Page 304 ZETTA :: poetics......Page 311 Notes......Page 316 Black Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove: A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual toward the Postdigital......Page 318 Black Feminist Calculus: A Primer. Relevance of Identity, Equality, and Limits......Page 319 Poetic Calculation......Page 321 Deciding Where to Start......Page 322 An Ethics of Accountability......Page 324 On Technology. The Necessity of the Digital (Approaching the Limit):......Page 326 Toward the Postdigital......Page 329 Coda......Page 330 References......Page 333 About the Contributors......Page 334 Index......Page 342 Introduction / -- Janell Hobson A poem for dead hearts (for an ignorant mo' fo) -- Jamie D. Walker Rethinking solidarity, building coalition. A herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter movement -- Alicia Garza Are all the blacks still men?: collective struggle and black male feminism -- Darnell L. Moore and Hashim Khalil Pipkin Beyond the prison-industrial complex: women of color transforming antiviolence work -- Julia Chinyere Oparah Heteropatriarchy and the three pillars of white supremacy: rethinking women of color organizing -- Andrea Smith Situating identities, relocating feminisms. Renegade architecture -- Epifania Amoo-Adare "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle -- Jessi Gan Theoretical shifts in the analysis of Latina sexuality: ethnocentrism, essentialism, and the right (white) way to be sexual -- Ana M. Juárez, Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain, and Susana L. Gallardo The power of sympathy: the politics of subjectifying women -- Purvi Shah Redefining difference, challenging racism. The Proust effect -- Gigi Marie Jasper Hot commodities, cheap labor: women of color in the Academy -- Patti Duncan Toxic or intersectional?: challenges to (white) feminist hegemony online -- Suey Park and David Leonard Note to self -- Joey Lusk Reclaiming the past, liberating the future. Mary Magdalene, Our Lady of Lexington: a feminist liberation mythology -- Raquel Z. Rivera It all started with a black woman: reflective notes on writing/performing rage -- Gina Athena Ulysse BOT I: a performance script in two parts -- Praba Pilar Black feminist calculus meets nothing to prove: a mobile homecoming project ritual toward the postdigital -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace. "Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis." -- Publisher's description More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave ( 1981 ). This updated collection expands upon the transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors reflect on transnational issues as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures