A Black Feminist Statement By Audre Lorde

Whiteness is a conceived ideology that has existed and been maintained since early history. This ideology has negatively influenced individuals of colour, causing them to receive many unfair benefits and disadvantages. In this essay, I will argue that the three most important overall features of whiteness are; that it is perceived as a normalized and dominant culture, that society considers white individuals as the most superior race and lastly that these individuals are easily granted countless of opportunities and privileges other races simply cannot have or afford. I will also show that through these features, whiteness essentially becomes a form of identity, shaping and maintaining the social institutions. Moreover, I have chosen these three features over other many features for the reason that they are critical issues that have

As presented in the article, "The Master 's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master 's House" by Audre Lorde, white women are discriminating against poor and coloured women and lesbians in the feminist movement through patriarchal ways. She further argues that if every woman would contribute and combine their differences, progress as well as change could be achieved against the oppression caused by men (Lorde, 1983). Additionally, the article, “A Black Feminist Statement” written by the Combahee River Collective, which was also a black feminist group that began in 1974, describes as well as examines the problems such as prejudices, racism, sexism, class oppression and homophobia that African-American women have faced throughout their lives. They also discuss the obstacles, in which they struggled and fought to overcome in order to eradicate as well as change all systems of oppressions against black women. (Combahee River Collective,