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Overview<br />
Issues of Race and Gender<br />
By Tafadzwa Mumba<br />
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When issues of race and racism are brought into the gender discourse,<br />
they run the risk of creating fundamental displacements<br />
and spurring interrogations of the manner and level at which<br />
feminists activists and women from the North and South<br />
can interact and advocate for gender issues as one. To a<br />
very large extent, this interrogation has the potential to<br />
widen divisions between and among women of different<br />
races as issues of ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’<br />
are brought under the spotlight. It seems purely<br />
romantic that such issues have not taken larger<br />
chunks of feminist activists’ discourse. Inevitably<br />
regardless of the extent to which women of different<br />
races have tried to integrate, spearhead and<br />
support each other in gender issues, issues of race<br />
tend to take upper stage.