Tracing Antiblackness in the Women's Movement and Education

• In Event: Living This Bridge Called Our Backs: An Intergenerational Dialogue by Women of Color

Abstract

In January 2017, the main stage for the worldwide Women’s March was Washington, D.C. Conversations leading up to the march were riddled with questions of White women’s loyalty to Black women, given the recent presidential election. But two months after the march, an alarming number of Black and Brown girls went missing in D.C. Concerned community members called a town hall meeting to discuss the missing girls. But as many images from the meeting posted online, strikingly, not one White person was in attendance. Drawing on This Bridge and the insidiousness of racism in the 1980’s Women’s Movement, this paper focuses on the bridge between White disregard and Black and Brown children’s education for liberation

Author

• Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia