Why is racial segregation an important reason? In history, racial discrimination has been around for a long time. More in particular, the black culture has been known to be the most racialized group out of all cultures. Because of historic injustices, it has led not only to racialized colour culture, but the white culture as well. Connecting back to dominance and power, whiteness or white dominance is present between most races and cultures. Most cases around the world have eliminated racial discrimination, although it still occurs.
To elaborate on racial discrimination between coloured women and white women, Frankenberg’s article and hooks’ article focuses a lot around coloured women. To illustrate, in the same lecture as the previous reason it talks about second wave black feminism, which included coloured women being racially oppressed by the white culture. Whether it involved jobs, political position, or civil rights, the coloured women were always racially oppressed. The Combahee River Collective’s aim was to eliminate all oppressed people of capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy, so it was a
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Because of their colour, coloured women experienced different racial discrimination that a white women would. In general, white people have always been in power and had dominance over the other races and cultures. It is also a fact that white women, although discriminated by white males, have a higher class than coloured men. Furthermore, White women are aware that in any case, they are protected from social and economic power of discrimination; something I would consider as a white