What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppr…

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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ✨ bell hooks (2014). Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, p.5, Routledge
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