Introduction
Stasiulis enumerates two themes concerning color feminism. The first theme is based on the understanding of the interconnectivity of the other social differences such as race, class, and sex as the process of development of privileges and oppression. The second theme is to give greater priority race and racism even though greater importance is given to race, gender, and class.
The first theme of color feminism
The first theme stresses that instead of treating race, class, and gender as three separate issues, their interlinking structures need to be identified. Stasiulis points out that as per feminist analysis, material structure, and discourses related to gender were racialized, and inversely race was gendered.
Class considerations were put on both of these as an added layer to race and gender. According to Marxist feminist ideologies, gender was created through class and economic struggle of oppression and subordination. According to the White feminist ideology, this difference in class and gender is based on color, and women of color face greater discrimination than White women. Therefore, the first theme demonstrates the racial hegemony of white women over women of color while preaching against gender differences.
The second theme of color feminism
The second theme demonstrates the lack of prioritization of race and racism as the most important form of oppression against women of color rather than gender that white feminist scholarship has been guilty of omitting. The second theme demonstrates the lack of attention paid by white feminist scholars on the racial oppression against women of color, as their oppression does not singularly stem from oppression based on economic and gender differences.