Racialized misogyny: Response to 44th Foulkes Lecture

Abstract

We cannot separate racism from misogyny. The 'intersectional experience [of racial misogyny] is greater than the sum of racism and sexism' (Crenshaw, 1989: 140). Racist misogynist psychic structuresFoulkes' 'Basic Law of Group Dynamics' that there is no clear-cut frontier between inside and outside. (Foulkes, 1990: 184), takes on particular complexity when translated into: racist [misogynist] social structures create racist [misogynist] psychic structures.