Is Solidarity for Only White Women?

The phrase “solidarity is for white women” emphasizes the limited amount of women in color who participates in academic debates related to female issues. However, this is ironic since solidarity means agreement among individuals with common interest. The phrase species white women even though minorities are the people excluded from the debate agreements. Allan G. Johnson would certainty say that the white women have the privilege in mainstream media. “What it does mean is that I’m also getting something that other people are denied, people who are like me in every respect for the social categories they belong to”. The phrase attempts to bridge the gap between the whites and minorities in mainstream women media.

Eduardo Bonilla- Silva, racism without race article, states that whites are in a privileged position in the racial order. “However, because all actors awarded the dominant racial position, regardless of their multiple structural locations ( men or women, gay or straight) benefit from what Mills calls the “racial contract”…)”. This means that the first main characteristic of a person is their race instead of gender. So people are judged by their demographic in relation to feminism. The characteristic is narrowed down to details.

“#Solidarityisforwhitewomen when pink hair, tattoos, and piercings are “quirky” or “alt” on a white woman but “ghetto” on a black one.” This tweet attempts to demonstrate the discriminative difference between two major demographic groups, Stereotypes are created by physical appearance, especially race. The main reason these tweets are created is provide minorities a chance to express their opinion about white solidarity and exclusion from conversations. Daily, these tweets symbolizes the struggle o...

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...had already chained and felled some of the older trees and moved the rock outcroppings with blasts and a bulldozer. And later they would not stop even ordered by law” (Hogan 285-286).

Andrea’s pillars of white supremacy shaped the land of Angel and her relatives in a generic way. Thankfully, the hydroelectric project prevented in the end. However, this was due to continuous struggle and loss between both governments (Native American and white) and its people. The pillars of white supremacy resisted the progress and growth of the Native American’s culture and land. Angel overcame the struggle of identity by embracing her heritage and learning to commune with nature in order to find true inner peace, despite the opposing western civilization disrupting the peace. She was still able to understand who she was and finally accept her physical and emotional imperfections.