The book is not conventionally organized indeed, it produces many overlaps as it addresses a constellation of issues that inform and encroach upon the lives of women of color: solidarity, poverty, racism, the patriarchy, violence, fear, public health, education, allyship. The book frames feminism as a movement that needs to incorporate the highly contextualized issues that affect different kinds of women rather than limit itself to the demands and hardships of a particular community. ” Across eighteen different essays, she tackles a plethora of issues often overlooked by white feminists and argues that white feminism, by advancing the claims of white women alone, adds to the oppression of other marginalized groups, such as women of color, Indigenous populations, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Kendall declares her own feminism to be “rooted in an awareness of how race and gender and class all affected ability to be educated, receive medical care, gain and keep employment, as well as how those things can sway authority figures in their treatment of.
In Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot, author Mikki Kendall calls for practice-oriented feminism: one that moves beyond academic theories and manifests amidst the struggle for survival that characterizes the lives of various groups. They have less power than they think, than anyone realizes, but like any small predator, they manage to be flashy enough to be seen.Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
And if you get enough of them in one place, they can prevent any real progress from occurring while they reap the benefits of straddling white supremacy and being woke. They’re oppression tourists, virtue-signaling volunteers who are really just here to get what they can and block the way, so no others can pass without meeting whatever arbitrary standards they create.
They are obstacles to freedom who feel no remorse, who provide no valuable insight, because ultimately, they are content to get in the way. They insist that they know best what should be done when attempting to battle and defeat bias, but in actuality they’re just happy to be useless. They replicate the manners of Jim Crow America, demanding deference and obedience they want the polite facade instead of disruption. Polite white people who respond to calls for respect, for getting boots off necks with demand for decorum, aren’t interested in resistance or disruption. “Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn’t about manners it’s about a methodology of controlling the conversation.
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