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Book SynopsisThe Trouble Between Us looks at the question why a radical interracial women''s movement did not develop in the 1960s and 1970s. It consideres white and black women''s experiences in the civil rights movement, the Black Arts and Black Power movements, including the Black Panther Party, Boston socialist feminism - particularly Bread and Roses, an early white socialist feminist organization, and the Combahee River Collective, a black socialist feminist organization, and Boston feminists'' efforts to develop cross- racial political projects in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The accepted interpretation of this period''s feminism has been that African American wmen did not join the women''s movement because it was racist. But while radical white women were often unconciously or abstractly racist, they were passionately anti-racist in their political objectives and worked hard to develop an interracial movement. At the same time, most radical black women were influenced by the Black Power m
Trade ReviewBreines provides valuable insight in a book that could and should be one in a series of close investigations of race and gender relations in U.S. social activism. * Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, The Journal of American History *
