A review by geekywoman14
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

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5.0

Language is important. I've worked on dismantling my engrained white supremacy teachings for more than 20 years now. So while little of the information here was new, bell hooks pointed out something I tend to forget despite it not being new information, and that's that language matters. She mentions many times how 'man' meant 'white man', 'Negro' meant 'Black man's, and' woman' meant 'white woman' therefore excluding Black women and men and women and non-binary people of all other ethnic and racial backgrounds. What's more, these weren't accidental exclusions, but at least initially purposeful choices meant to exclude. 
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