2017•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of SociologyRequires access
Multiracial Feminism
Michele Tracy Berger, Silvia Cristina Bettez
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Abstract
Women of color have always actively participated in women's issues. However, their experience with feminist work has often been overlooked and largely undocumented. Multiracial feminism refers to the activist and scholarly work conducted by women of color and antiracist white allies to promote race, class, and gender equality. In comparison to the highly documented second wave white, middle‐class feminism, which centered on abolishing patriarchy and privileged patriarchy as an oppression over all others, women of color feminism resists separating oppression and insists on recognizing the intersectionality of race, class, and gender oppression.