bell hooks · Politics
hooks’s signature phrase, <em>white supremacist capitalist patriarchy</em>, names race, class, and gender domination as one interlocking system rather than separate problems - and insists we keep all of them in view at once, because naming only one lets the others hide.
You learned that hooks coined ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ (later often prefaced with ‘imperialist’) to keep the interlocking systems of domination continually in view, so that opposing sexism does not excuse racism, and opposing racism does not excuse class exploitation or patriar…
Leads to W. E. B. Du Bois.
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