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Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspecties on Anti-Semitism and Racism
Yours In Struggle Three Feminist Perspecties on AntiSemitism and Racism Author:Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith These thought-provoking personal essays examine the political reality of racism and anti-semitism from the perspectives of three lesbian activists from widely-differing backgrounds and identities who share mutual respect for each other's work. White, Christian-raised Southerner Minnie Bruce Pratt, asks: "Where does the need come from, the inner ... more »push to walk into change, if by skin color, ethnicity, birth culture, we are women who are in a position of material advantage, where we gain at the expense of others, other women?" Barbara Smith, an African-American, examines the difficulty of talking about anti-semitism to Black women and about racism to Jewish women because, in a white-supremist patriarchy, "white skin, and if you have it, class privilege, definitely count for something, even if you belong at the very same time to a group or to groups that the society despises." Elly Bulkin, an Ashkenazi Jew, traces the roots and growth of racism and anti-semitism and ends with an appendix of questions "intended to challenge, to reveal changes in attitudes... to underscore how much each of us still has to learn" about our own culturally-ingrained racist and anti-semitic thinking and feeling. As these authors offer righteous rage without anger and detailed analysis without tedium, their experienced concern with everyday justice charges this work with life-affirming energy.« less