Are All the Women Still White?

Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender, also published by SUNY Press.

"…an outstanding contribution that is very highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review"This new book clearly illumines the vibrant, radical, and transformative labor of women of color and black feminists against racist, sexist, classist, imperialist, and other oppressive dynamics … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"Are All the Women Still White? blends traditions of feminist-of-color struggle with the innovative insights of twenty-first-century thinkers, artists, and activists. For anyone engaged in inclusive, multi-issued work, this book is indispensable." — Barbara Smith, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJanell HobsonA Poem for Dead Hearts (for an ignorant mo’ fo)Jamie D. WalkerPart I. RETHINKING SOLIDARITY, BUILDING COALITIONA Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter MovementAlicia GarzaAre All the Blacks Still Men? Collective Struggle and Black Male FeminismDarnell L. Moore and Hashim Khalil PipkinBeyond the Prison-Industrial Complex: Women of Color Transforming Antiviolence WorkJulia Chinyere OparahHeteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color OrganizingAndrea SmithPart II. SITUATING IDENTITIES, RELOCATING FEMINISMSRenegade ArchitectureEpifania Amoo-Adare"Still at the Back of the Bus": Sylvia Rivera’s StruggleJessi GanTheoretical Shifts in the Analysis of Latina Sexuality: Ethnocentrism, Essentialism, and the Right (White) Way to be SexualAna M. Juárez, Stella Beatríz Kerl-McClain, and Susana L. GallardoThe Power of Sympathy: The Politics of Subjectifying WomenPurvi ShahPart III. REDEFINING DIFFERENCE, CHALLENGING RACISMThe Proust EffectGigi Marie JasperHot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Women of Color in the AcademyPatti DuncanToxic or Intersectional? Challenges to (White) Feminist Hegemony OnlineSuey Park and David LeonardNote to SelfJoey LuskPart IV. RECLAIMING THE PAST, LIBERATING THE FUTUREMary Magdalene, Our Lady of Lexington: A Feminist Liberation MythologyRaquel Z. RiveraIt All Started with a Black Woman: Reflective Notes on Writing/Performing RageGina Athena UlysseBOT I: A Performance Script in Two PartsPraba PilarBlack Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove: A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual toward the PostdigitalAlexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne WallaceAbout the ContributorsIndex