檳榔嶼

- Nonwhites are absent/invisible is because they are not white. All white women in this nation know that whiteness is a privileged category.
  - The fact that white females may choose to repress or deny this knowledge does not mean they are ignorant: it means that they are in denial.
- Contemporary white females witnessing the militant demand for more rights for black people chose that moment to demand more rights for themselves.
  - They entered the (feminist) movement erasing and denying differece, not playing race alongside gender, but eliminating race from the picture.
- Foregrounding gender meant that white women could take center stage, could claim the movement as theirs, even as they called on all women to join.
  - No wonder individual black women choosing feminism were reluctant to introduce their awareness of race.
- Individual white women who had attempted to organize the movement around the banner of common oppression evoking the notion that women constituted a sexual class/caste were the most reluctant to acknowledge differences among women, differences that overshadowed all the common experiences female shared.
- Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger.
- The only problematic arena has been that of translating theory into practice.
  - Racism and sexism combined create harmful barriers between women.
- Biased feminist scholarship which attempts to show that white girls are somehow more vulnerable to sexist conditioning than girls of color simply perpetuates the white supremacist assumption that white females require and deserve more attention to their concerns and ills than other groups.