Re: On Static notions of class, gender, imperialism, etc.

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx 07/22/00 02:54PM >>>White women actively participated 
>>> in the
>work of imperialism in a
variety of ways, and not simply as appendages to white males either.
White women often created space for white female self-assertion in
the Civilizing Mission, portraying themselves as liberators of
colored women, who were ideologically cast as opposites of white
women: passive victims of brown men's prejudice.  A few white women
resisted such a racist notion of female agency (white = active versus
colored = passive), but most didn't question their imperial right to
tutor women of color.  For them, it was a "White Women's Burden," to
paraphrase Kipling.

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CB: Also, white women , who were doing most to "all" of the childcare and 
childrearing
of white boys, had to be complicit in giving them the basics of imperialist and 
racist
mentality. If white women had not done this job, the white imperialist men 
might have
been "wiped out" in a genaration or two. Certainly, it would have been hard for 
the
white men both to raise the boys and do their imperialist thing at the same 
time.