ABSTRACT
As a black woman and a feminist from the Caribbean—Trinidad and Tobago to be exact—I am concerned about the apparent polarization of feminism into ‘black’ and ‘white’ in both Britain and the USA, given that, as an ideology and a political practice concerned with the oppression of women, feminism still has to struggle to achieve and maintain legitimacy. It has been argued that racism in these societies, including its existence within the women’s movement itself, is responsible for this polarization.
