"Age, Race, Class, And Sex: Women Redefining Difference” And “Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism”: Race Feminist Theory

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in today’s society, “oppression is as american as apple pie” (103). She believes that it has always been that the oppressed people of society have always been expected to “bridge the gap” and change to fit in. They have been the ones to learn and adapt to the ways of the oppressor, and sometimes even are the teachers. “It is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes” (103). The oppressed are sometimes “called upon” to tell them of their mistakes. Our energy is wasted in telling them of their mistakes when it could be focused on ourselves and changing what is wrong.
So far in history we have been taught to deal with the differences among us in three ways. Either we can choose to “ignore it”, “copy it if we think that it is dominant, or destroy it if we think that it is subordinate” (103). For the most part, people in society have chose to ignore it and go on with their everyday lives as if that was normal. The differences between us are what ...

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to pay attention to it. How can we change a society if we don’t understand it and all its problems? We must “devise ways to use each others’ difference to enrich our visions and our joint struggles” (108). If we can recognize our differences, we can help each other overcome them and then combine our efforts in beating the oppression.
When studies are done and courses are created in women’s studies, colored women are often left out of the literature. This is because white women see themselves as the definition of women and fail to see that they are others, and if they do see them they are categorized as “others”. The excuse is used that only colored women can teach other colored ...

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