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A review by imaginethehours
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
4.0
This book focuses on all the different ways that issues which Black women face are feminist issues that should be important to the mainstream feminist movement, if they look to include people of color in a real way. It is told by a Black woman, as it should be, talking about her own life experiences, those of people she knows, statistics of poverty, violence, educational access, and unfair treatment which impact Black women (and other POC) significantly more than white women. Though I have felt that I in general recognized these inequalities, it is different to read it plainly and directly on paper. I had never thought of hunger, homelessness, and other issues as feminist issues directly, and I have been a little too much like those feminist white women she describes throughout the book in these ways.
Some quotes/take-aways:
"Gun-related deaths are now the second-leading cause of death for American children, who are fourteen times more likely to be killed with guns before age fifteen than children in other high-income countries. ..Not surprisingly, Black children and teens are most at risk: they are four times more likely than white children and teens to be killed with guns." -p.20
Those statistics hit me, that it should be so much more likely for a child to be shot dead.
Respectability politics.
There is this concept of what is "professional" and "proper" and acceptable, and those definitions and presentations, from appearance to speech, have been set by white people, and usually well-to-do white men. It's time we look at things differently, and let people be who they are without it impacting their perception of being intelligent, accomplished, and respectable.
"It renders even the expression of feminist issues an exercise in navigating privilege, in having to earn your way to be able to critique, express anger or fear, or even ask for help. And it means that white-centered expectations of politeness, of muted emotions, are projected onto the righteous anger and sometimes grief of women of color." -p.92-93
"On average, American states spend $88,000 to incarcerate a young person, but allot an average of $10,000 to education them." -p.199 So sad and twisted... If only this were reversed.
Some quotes/take-aways:
"Gun-related deaths are now the second-leading cause of death for American children, who are fourteen times more likely to be killed with guns before age fifteen than children in other high-income countries. ..Not surprisingly, Black children and teens are most at risk: they are four times more likely than white children and teens to be killed with guns." -p.20
Those statistics hit me, that it should be so much more likely for a child to be shot dead.
Respectability politics.
There is this concept of what is "professional" and "proper" and acceptable, and those definitions and presentations, from appearance to speech, have been set by white people, and usually well-to-do white men. It's time we look at things differently, and let people be who they are without it impacting their perception of being intelligent, accomplished, and respectable.
"It renders even the expression of feminist issues an exercise in navigating privilege, in having to earn your way to be able to critique, express anger or fear, or even ask for help. And it means that white-centered expectations of politeness, of muted emotions, are projected onto the righteous anger and sometimes grief of women of color." -p.92-93
"On average, American states spend $88,000 to incarcerate a young person, but allot an average of $10,000 to education them." -p.199 So sad and twisted... If only this were reversed.