ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on women and race and discusses Bettina Aptheker's work, Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class. It talks about the way in which every liberatory struggle initiated by groups of people who have been seen as objects begins with a revolutionary process wherein they assert that they are subjects. It is this process that Paulo Freire stresses: "we cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become subjects". In crucial ways, writing about cultures or experiences of ethnic groups different from one's own becomes most political when the issue is who will be regarded as the authoritative voice. Certainly it is important and necessary for people from any ethnic/racial group to play a significant role in the creation and dissemination of material about their particular experience. Cross-ethnic feminist scholarship should emphasize the value of a scholar's work as well as the unique perspective that scholar brings to bear on the subject.
