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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the wya in which Belinda Robnett relates two specific themes in her book How Long? How Long? African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. These themes include the role that women played in the background of the Civil Rights Movement, and the conflicts that arose from trying to view the Civil Rights Movement from a feminist perspective. Robnett recognized that women were instrumental in many aspects of the Black Power Movement, but that they were not recognized as leaders of a movement that was lead by men and seemed inherently sexist. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of history have made the mistake in assuming that the womens rights movement of the 1970s was deeply rooted in the changes that occurred as a result of the Civil
Rights movement of the 1960s and that the efforts of the Black Power Movement supported womens rights. In fact, these two liberation movements were disconnected, and African American women
were criticized as being subjugated in the Black Power Movement. Belinda Robnett relates two specific themes in her book How Long? How Long? African American Women
in the Struggle for Civil Rights, the role that women played in the background of the Civil Rights Movement, and the conflicts that arose from trying to view the Civil
Rights Movement from a feminist perspective. Robnett recognized that women were instrumental in many aspects of the Black Power Movement, but that they were not recognized as leaders of
a movement that was lead by men and seemed inherently sexist. Robnett further recognized that that Black power and feminism were not connected elements of parallel liberation movements, but
conflicted components of two different efforts. The Feminist Movement, then, a movement of mobile white women, would later be used as a point from which critiques of the Civil
Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist standards to the unified, though seemingly sexist, Civil Rights Movement. Robnett
described this as using a "white womans issue" to assess the actions of the male leadership of the Black Power movement (4). In understanding the conflicted themes presented in
Robnetts work, it is valuable to consider some of the background that she presents, and also relate the themes of her book to the issues and events that occurred during
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