"Some feminists have insisted that women of colour experience multiple oppressions, resulting in unique identities of raceme gender, and class"
"Intersectionality is believed to be democratic because women of colour now have the authority…" …"to create their own feminisms."
Although intersectionality means that people develop their own meaning of feminism, it is important to reclaim the idea that women all have something in common.
"The questions are how different" (are women) "and how their differences due to race, sexuality, and class get constructed".
"perhaps even more importantly, third wave feminists need to be able to listed to Third World women"
"Hooks and others objected that when early second wave white feminists compared themselves to 'blacks' in terms of oppression and disadvantage, they ignored the very existence of black women".
"Since gender distinctions were actively deployed by white feminists and valued by blacks, the result of the feminist comparison was an erasure of existing black women because it seemed to be assumed that all blacks were male."
In this text, Zack writes how the voices of black women have been either completely ignored or not heard due to their positions in the race/class system in the past. It is widely known that feminist scholars have largely been white, middle class women with access to higher education or leisure time. With things like forums and websites on the internet, it makes feminism so much more accessible to various levels of oppressions. It could be seen as an outlet for women of colour to address the issue of 'white feminism' and challenge how it completely marginalises women.
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