Who cares about global histories when racism is smacking them in the face on the daily?
Who has that luxury? Racism in the modern sense is just that, the modern sense, however a form of racism as in the target of subjugation identified by signifiers due to imperialism has a history as long as the history of female subjugation. Skin is only the current signifier! There has always been a history of subjugation that includes more signifiers than just being female. That fact does not negate the fact that females have been subjugated, nor should those female ignore other who have been subjugated by other signifiers. “This kind of understanding is critical if you want to formulate productive theories about how these things came to be, how they work globally, and how they interact. ” Says who? I have read and participated in many productive theories that discuss how they interact globally. “Unfortunately most people seem to mistake any attempt to analyze types of oppression as an attempt to play at “trumping” one over the other.” Perhaps they make that mistake because it is what
