- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (6 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195334590
- ISBN-13: 978-0195334593
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,586,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Breines provides valuable insight in a book that could and should be one in a series of close investigations of race and gender relations in U.S. social activism."--Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, The Journal of American History
"In The Trouble Between Us, Winifred Breines bravely tackesl the touchy subject of race relations among feminists."--Jo Freeman, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"An important contribution to historical research on racial issues in recent US feminism. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"Breines's book is a welcome addition for the fashioning of new understandings about feminisms as crucial contributors to postwar American policital culture."--Benita Roth, American Historical Review
"A courageous and insightful book." -- American Studies Journal
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i The Trouble Between Us looks at the question why a radical interracial women's movement did not develop in the 1960s and 1970s. It consideres white and black women's experiences in the civil rights movement, the Black Arts and Black Power movements, including the Black Panther Party, Boston socialist feminism - particularly Bread and Roses, an early white socialist feminist organization, and the Combahee River Collective, a black socialist feminist organization, and Boston feminists' efforts to develop cross- racial political projects in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The accepted interpretation of this period's feminism has been that African American wmen did not join the women's movement because it was racist. But while radical white women were often unconciously or abstractly racist, they were passionately anti-racist in their political objectives and worked hard to develop an interracial movement. At the same time, most radical black women were influenced by the Black Power movement and as a result many were not interested in joining the early white women's liberation movement. Young activists had begun with ideals of togetherness and found themselves divided and estranged, struggling to retain a hopeful image of interracial community. Race came between young white and black radical feminists. Movement women, particularly whites, were forced to relinquish idealistic and universalist images in order to recognise their own social benefits. In their different ways, whether because white women were priviledged and unable to understand subtle versions of racism, white and black men were sexist, or because white women's feminism did not clearly include a place for balck women, they all had to let go of preconceived images and hopes. Only then were they able to construct relationships based on who they were and not on who they wanted to be or wanted others to be. This book argues that white feminists and feminists of colour were pioneers in America's understanding of white racism and in anti-racism practices and consciousness.
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A must read for feminists
23 May 2006
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The Trouble Between Us is a must read for those of us (black and white feminists) who participated in the women's movement from the 1960s - 1980s, and for younger feminists (and everyone) who want to understand the historical roots of contemporary feminism. Wini Breines describes, analyses and explains the difficulties of creating a multi-racial women's movement in the US, and why white and black feminists finally achieved some success in working together. Their struggle is model for bringing about cross-racial understanding in the larger society. I loved this book.
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